I don't remember exactly how it goes, but supposedly at one of the world congresses of the Comintern, Amadeo Bordiga was supposed to have told Stalin that, if the Soviet Union was really the fatherland of the world proletariat and not just another nation state, it ought to be governed by a joint committee of all the communist parties of the world.
What if something similar had been implemented in reality, early on in the USSR's existence? (Or before there was a USSR, in the RSFSR). What if the Comintern governed Soviet Russia, rather than vice versa?
Well, the USSR was governed by the All-Union Communist Party which technically speaking was only one section of the Communist International. So in that sense the USSR
was theoretically ruled by the world Communist movement. In fact, in the early years of the Comintern dissident Russian Communists were naïve enough to appeal from the Russian Communist Party to the Comintern! (Needless to say, they lost.)
So is there anything that could make the Russian/Soviet Comunist Party really just a section of the Comintern (as it was in theory) and not its ruler? The only thing that could make the Comintern anything other than a Russian-dominated organization would be an early and successful Communist revolution in some other major nation like Germany--and that was always unlikely. As long as Russia was the only state where Communists were in power, she was bound to dominate the Comintern.
"At the Fifth Congress in 1924, the German delegate, August Thalheimer, declared: 'It is absolutely necessary, a historic necessity, for the Russian party to have the leadership of the Third International--of this there is no need to speak any further--and other parties will rank with it as equals only when they also take power, and know how to hold on to power and to make the transition to socialism.' The Japanese, Katayama, exclaimed, 'I affirm that I am opposed to the statement of Bordiga that the leading position of the Russian Communist Party in the communist international can be called into question.'
"At the Seventh Plenum, toward the end of 1926, the Italian, Palmiro Togliatti (Ercoli), brought the unwritten law into the open: 'Of course, we have the statutes of the International which guarantee certain rights to certain comrades; but there is something which is not in these statutes. That is the position of the Russian party in the International, its leading function — that goes beyond the limits of the statutes.'" Theodore Draper, *American Communism and Soviet Russia,* pp. 165-66.
https://books.google.com/books?id=SlRc3KqcDygC&pg=PA165
And this would be true regardless of who controlled the Russian/Soviet Communist Party--indeed all these statements were made before Stalin's rise to absolute power. (In fact, once Stalin really did rise to absolute power, such statements disappeared for the simple reason that everyone assumed implicitly that the Soviet Communist Party, i.e., Stalin, was infallible.)