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Soviet Union

What people actually thought of communism

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 11/10/2018 - 6:58pm

The Soviet Union collapsed because the people rejected communism.
Well, that's what we've been told.
I just ran across a historic referendum on the future of the Soviet Union which was held on 17 March 1991. Nearly 150 million people voted.

When the United States invaded Russia

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 07/22/2018 - 2:43pm

Is the United States a "Thermonuclear Monarchy?"

Submitted by Radical Reformer on Wed, 07/26/2017 - 4:47pm

As we celebrated this July the severing of ties to the royal house of Great Britain in 1776, the truth is that we have come full circle and have since 1945 been living under a far more dangerous and absolute system than anything King George III could have contemplated in his wildest dreams, what author Elaine Scarry calls, “the Thermonuclear Monarchy.”