• huge_clock@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The USSR was definitely communist. They called themselves communist, were inspired by communists and implemented communist policies.

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        1 year ago

        No because they are not inspired by democratic republicans and they do not have democratic republican policies. Read me whole comment next time.

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          Critical thinking needs a bit of work there buddy. That’s exactly my point: the USSR did not have communist policies, it wasn’t even based on communism. It was an authoritarian state-capitalist regime which called itself socialist (not even communist), much like North Korea calls itself a democratic republic.

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              As a term, communist state is used by Western historians, political scientists, and media to refer to these countries. However, these states do not describe themselves as communist nor do they claim to have achieved communism, as it would constitute an oxymoron—they refer to themselves as socialist states that are in the process of constructing socialism.