Never again!!!

Family friends grew up in the Soviet Union, and I've read or heard enough accounts about Castro's revolution, Cambodia, VC, the PLA, and Venezuela.

I like it: i've heard. Then you know nothing. Anybody can find bad moments in every thing. Bc all people have "apopheny". Most stories of bad bad ussr from migrants that dont like ussr. And all make survivorship bias. Also we can add anti-commy Truman's propaganda. Voila.
I have enough old people in my circle of friends that regret about ussr destruction. They can be wrong too, but...

I mean we can take what you're say as pro-communist propaganda. It's a pretty good system if you're not human (so robots would probably use it very well).

It's your choice... be human-like subjective than logically objective.

I'd rather stay in touch with my human side.

I'll take the system that hasn't directly killed hundreds of millions.

@famousone your comments always restore my faith in humanity and make me think we have a lot in common. Thanks for both!

Don't mention it, just keep up the good fight

I'll take the system that hasn't directly killed hundreds of millions. (с) this such cock-and-bull story. Where is real facts, normal historical sources? From books of mentally ill Solzhenitsyn? You can deny US system too, bc statisticaly your penitentiary system killed not less in same time. But you have no interest about it... Cause you are busy: you shout stupid speeches about fight.

You're being backed into a corner, broheim. I'd say wave the white flag.

Are you alright? U r talking strange shit.

@Wassertern my great grandparents fled russian communism in Europe and moved to the US because Russian Jews were literally being exterminated. Sure, they met a bit of antisemitism stateside but they were never killed and tortured... cant say the same for my family that stayed in Russia. This isnt some ancient story either or a debate about modern politics, this is recent history repeating itself over and over again because people like you who havent lived through horrors like populist communism and a social government drunk with power, people like you who keep idealizing a system of government that has failed over and over again. Maybe, just maybe, terrible people are drawn to power, government officials (elected or not) go out of their way to gain power, and communism is an amazing catalyst for intense corruption.

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@interesting hm... You tell me about history of my country... cause your far ancestor ran from my ancestors... Not even from my country. Really?
You even didn't provide any facts of "Russian Jews were literally being exterminated". By other jews? Huge part of government was and is jews... My best school teacher was jew. Her father fought in WW2 as soviet man, was captured by nazies. Don't mess your habits of racism and segregation with our habits. I'm in same time: ukrainian, russian, bashkirian (asian). My son is same plus tatarian.
So... What are you talking about?
Yes, we always have problem with "national question".
"because people like you who havent lived through horrors like populist communism" (c) but you lived... And have you better look from far? It's called emotional demagoguery.
May be will you start again but with facts, not emotions?

Damn dude your grammar is getting worse with every comment you make.

Yep =(

@grimreaper it's because my ancestors didn't flee russian communism to USA. =) But we can fix it: you'll improve my language, i'll move to USA and make it "again". I can improve your ITSec skills, you'll move to Russia and spread democracy =)

Incorrect, most of the government was filled with Orthodox Christian, specifically Lutheran, officials. There were some Jews fighting for the Soviets, however most of them were forced conscripts from Hungary... not actual communist party members. History aside, let's talk about right now shall we? Lets say I go out tomorrow and protest an elected official or the government in Moscow, I would VERY likely be jailed, killed, or jailed and then killed. If I did it in the US you know what would happen? Probably nothing... someone may even to offer to buy me lunch who supported my views. You're a communist loyalist who wants the Soviet union to come back and that's all fine and dandy, I would love to see you live through actual Soviet Communism. You're understanding of history and you're perspective on this as so far removed from reality I'm not really sure what more I can say here.