> There were many counter revolutionaries among the leadership

Well, Stalin was, by far, the biggest counter-revolutionary in the Politburo.

> Stalin was like "ah fuck we're hella compromised."

There's no evidence that anything significant was compromised at that point, and clear evidence that Stalin was in fact medically paranoid.

> Many revolutions fail in this step and often end up facing a CIA backed coup. The USSR was under constant siege and attempted infiltration since inception.

Can we please not recycle 90-years old soviet propaganda? The Moscow trial being irrational self-harm was acknowledged by the USSR leadership as early as the fifties…