Yeah, this is my critique, they tried to build the superstructure of New Soviet Man before the base was there.

They were just too optimistic, not about people, but about where their system was. Declaring things like that they had attained the first stage of Socialism in 1970. Bukharin asked for "Socialism at a snails pace", and even though more radical voices took over and made things progress more rapidly, that's all they could accomplish.

We forget, I think, that New Capitalist Man was also created, and it took 500 years to do so.