Because sometimes I just need to get those ideas out before forgetting them.
While the Communist system of OTL was anathema to most transhumanists, there were some parallels - the strain of atheism, the belief in Progress with a capital T, etc.
What if over time, the USSR evolved into a system that would be hospitable to transhumanist ideas?
I can imagine it starting with a longer lived Lenin instituting the NEP, and then choosing a more moderate (yes, I know some consider Stalin moderate, I said MORE moderate) leader of the Soviet Union.
There is a great Debate over the ideas of Lysenko in the Soviet Union, but without Stalin's support, belief in his ideas does not become idiomatic.
More thoughts later, but would love to hear your thoughts.