Even worse. He said:

“My response to the end of Soviet tyranny was similar to my reaction to the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini. In all cases, it is a victory for the human spirit. It should have been particularly welcome to socialists, since a great enemy of socialism had at last collapsed. Like you, I was intrigued to see how people—including people who had considered themselves anti-Stalinist and anti-Leninist—were demoralized by the collapse of the tyranny. What it reveals is that they were more deeply committed to Leninism than they believed.”

Among other things. He routinely called USSR “empire”, “state capitalism”, believed the Black Book, most of the stupid propaganda on how USSR was “not socialism” either originated or was peddled with him.