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Originally Posted by Kr4mnikUS
Hate to nitpick but even in the Soviet Union days, it was never a Communist country, rather a Socialist one. Almost every American I have spoken with seems to have this misconception about Russia
Yeah gee, why would think such a thing, it's not like the Bolshevik's changed their name to the "Communist Party" and specifically tried to implement Communist policies or anything.
I hate to get in the way of your little "LOL Americans especially right wingers" session, but your statement is only valid if you ignore the history of the Soviet Union pre WWII, where the Soviet Union tried very hard to be Communist and failed miserably at it.