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no_hypocrisy

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5. Maybe "communist" insofar as the economy.

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Fri Mar 25, 2022, 06:23 AM

Mar 2022

Private businesses were nationalized. Farmland was nationalized.

When Soviet Russia took over Ukraine, its farmland and wheat belonged to Russia, not to Ukraine.

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do people really think Russia is still a communist country? [View all] anarch Mar 2022 OP

I don't believe that it ever was. Sherman A1 Mar 2022 #1

well it was at least intended to be anarch Mar 2022 #2

I'm not sure that it really was intended to be one Sherman A1 Mar 2022 #3

ok, but that has nothing to do with the economic system anarch Mar 2022 #6

Look, Sherman A1 Mar 2022 #9

I don't know, I feel like words should have meaning anarch Mar 2022 #10

Agreed. Never communist. Always totalitarian. Always ruled Tomconroy Mar 2022 #4

Maybe "communist" insofar as the economy. no_hypocrisy Mar 2022 #5

This. The means of production taken over by the state. brush Mar 2022 #7

well yeah anarch Mar 2022 #8

All systems of government are like Animal Farm in which some members of society are/become Backseat Driver Mar 2022 #11

that's not the point though; and I'm not talking about systems of government anarch Mar 2022 #12

Yes, and yes. taxi Apr 2022 #13

I think it was 2008-09 before I realized it. Captain Zero Apr 2022 #14