That was always the fairy tale expounded, that whatever the flaws of Capitalism, that it ultimately created so much growth in the economy that it would eventually eclipse any of the accomplishments of a Communist system. But in order to make that lie work, they needed to either just lie about the accomplishments under communism from the 20's to 80's... or just straight-up take credit for communist accomplishments from the 80's to the present.
That was always the fairy tale expounded, that whatever the flaws of Capitalism, that it ultimately created so much growth in the economy that it would eventually eclipse any of the accomplishments of a Communist system. But in order to make that lie work, they needed to either just lie about the accomplishments under communism from the 20's to 80's... or just straight-up take credit for communist accomplishments from the 80's to the present.