There was no dictatorship of the working class. They defanged the Soviets - you know the workers’ councils that the USSR was named for.

You don’t have to watch a video, here’s the script text for the entire series:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anark-the-state-is-counter-revolutionary

MLs love reading, don’t they? Oh but wait, that’s anarchism. Go ahead, tell me it’s beneath you and I should read On Authority. I have. It was underwhelming to put it nicely.

And yes, the system they built was on the back of and patterned after the authoritarian monarchist regimes they followed. That’s not a favourable light to put that system in. Was it marginally better than a monarchy? Sure, why is that relevant to anything? We live under neoliberal regimes of which none to my knowledge has ever been toppled by an ML revolution.

That ideology is centuries out of date. Anarchists saw its downfall before it started. It’s failed.

Even if you’re combatting some bizarre strawman about absolute dictators, it’s equally bizarre that your response is to attempt to rehabilitate Stalin’s character. That puts you squarely in tankie territory.