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Originally Posted by CCIP
Not really. Again, that's a very complicated question. There are a lot of disaffected, mostly older people who will say that. But there's less and less of them. The current Russian government has been doing a pretty excellent job of starving off the pensioners so they don't have to deal with this risk for so much longer. And even among the older generation, there is far from a consensus - many still have little good to say about the years they had to do things they didn't want, keep their mouths shut, and deal with their friendly neighbourhood KGB agents at their door after midnight. There is a lot of living memory of it, and having known quite a number of dissidents and free-thinking people I can attest to that. I can also attest to the other side, of course, having also known good, hard-working, dedicated communists who really believed/believe in the cause. In fact I have both of those types of people in my immediate family.
Bottom line is, as I said in my very first post, the fact that things are bad now doesn't do much to excuse the wrongs of the Soviet regime. Choosing among lesser evils isn't really great choice.
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I understand your point, but I'm a realist. Also, I know the corruption in Russia, and beleive me the KPRF is very large and growing! Younger generation are starting to join within it's ranks. Russian government has fraud elections many more support Communists. I talk to comrades in KPRF and they're political position is, marxist-leninist, socialist, nationalist with economic elements. Has their ever been a true communist country? You and I both know communism a stateless, classless societies. That being said i'm not to fond of the "trotskyists " or those who applaud the fake revolutions by NATO etc which is all the same Imperialism.. But I want to ask you... Are the western countires really more "free"? Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot