Anna Louise was highly self aware. She didn't see the Soviet experiment as perfect but knew it was important to have a hard stance on the way she chose to speak on it.
..for those who want to discredit her as "naive"
“One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor […]—backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.”
-Michael Parenti