Well I can't agree with, 'And they are Communists too!!!!!', quite the opposite in fact, they seem to be rapidly heading down the ultra nationalist path, I would say that this is quite largely due to the fact that western nations ignored it almost entirely while it left communism and became democratic as well as shedding a large part of its empire voluntarily.
When I was a child in the states, teachers and politicians alike warned us of the imminent danger of communists taking over. They also insisted that nearly everything that the Communist Regime said to it's people was Propaganda.
It was only after I left school that I realised what they taught us was Propaganda.
The states, for example, is nearer to a fascist government than a communist one on the scale of Big Threats.
I am happy here. I also do not know much about current politics. Can you tell?
I vaguely remember seeing pictures at school of long queues in communist Russia for bread, any visit to a successful grocery store makes this rather an unconvincing piece of propaganda. I would not say that communist Russia was the place to live, but rather that when it did become a democratic nation it was either ignored or rebuked for its past, now that it is an extremely wealthy nation it holds a grudge. I am criticising the apathy with which the world treated the country, with its large population, when there was a time that they needed help so badly (whose politics are better, is open to debate, I personally don't like either sides). We waffle on (as a society) about relatively, as it seems to me, unimportant ideals, why attempt to stop womens faces being veiled when while nations are on the brink of destruction etc. You see I am quite the moralist.
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When I was a child in the states, teachers and politicians alike warned us of the imminent danger of communists taking over. They also insisted that nearly everything that the Communist Regime said to it's people was Propaganda.
It was only after I left school that I realised what they taught us was Propaganda.
The states, for example, is nearer to a fascist government than a communist one on the scale of Big Threats.
I am happy here. I also do not know much about current politics. Can you tell?
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I would not say that communist Russia was the place to live, but rather that when it did become a democratic nation it was either ignored or rebuked for its past, now that it is an extremely wealthy nation it holds a grudge.
I am criticising the apathy with which the world treated the country, with its large population, when there was a time that they needed help so badly (whose politics are better, is open to debate, I personally don't like either sides).
We waffle on (as a society) about relatively, as it seems to me, unimportant ideals, why attempt to stop womens faces being veiled when while nations are on the brink of destruction etc.
You see I am quite the moralist.
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