Friday, May 7, 2010

The Collapse of Communism

Communism didn't end. The Soviet system collapsed in the late 1980s, and many people hailed that as an end to communism. However, the Soviet system was a form of state socialism not communism, countries like China and Cuba which are expressly communist still exist, and many modern democratic nations have strong communist parties participating in their governments.

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