We still await the outcome of the elections. We felt very sad about something which we thought would never happen, i.e. the demise of the Soviet Union. But, then, we are Marxists. Marxism is a science. How long it would take to establish socialism or communism we do not know.
Nobody can predict.
And, then, countries like Cuba, Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos are also socialistic. We feel encouraged by them. But we must also draw lessons from the failure of socialism. As Marxists, we have to be realistic. We derive lessons from the failures as well as the successes of the working of socialism in the contemporary world.