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Time to revamp that relic from the past. We may remain a capitalist society, but there is no question that we are being heavily influenced by a Communist one.
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)We will be too the afternoon of the 20th of next month.
Baitball Blogger
(46,573 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 11, 2016, 07:54 PM - Edit history (1)
Nothing about modern Russia is communist. It is not a classless society where all property is communally-owned. It is a capitalist society wherein people own private property, businesses make profits, and workers are paid wages.
Russia is technically a democracy because its leaders are elected, but it's very flawed democracy as elections are rigged and opposition is stifled. Russia lacks many of the qualities we associate with liberal democracy, primarily the protection of individual rights and free press.
Russia has a parliament called the State Duma, however, the party in control is Putin's own party, United Russia, and they rarely, if ever, oppose Putin or restrict his powers. The Duma is essentially a rubber stamp, which only serves to lend Putin legitimacy.
For future reference, government's which restrict freedoms or have strong central rulers are typically called authoritarian or totalitarian, and are not necessarily communist.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Russia-a-democratic-or-communist-country
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)but I'm glad you made it.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)BSdetect
(8,989 posts)as soon as they tried to become communist. And that succeeded. Totalitarian horror resulted.
Guess from who?
Ever read The Pentagon Papers?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Both the USSR and the People's Republic of China were involved in the VN War and other Communist wars of liberation, as they were called.
Though the two countries had their rivlaries, both supported these wars with arms, equipment and funding.
Less well-known is the fact that the PRC also had military advisors with North Vietnamese Army units fighting in South Vietnam. I know only because 47 years ago, in December 1969, we (2/501 Infantry Battalion, 101st Airborne Division) fought an all-night battle against a North Vietnamese Army ( NVA) regiment that had crossed the DMZ on a mission to attack the city of Quang Tri.
After the battle the men had to dig out the enemy bunkers that had been blown with 90-mm recoilless rifles, digging through the body parts to recover enemy arms and equipment.
They recovered the body, radio, and codes of the PRC Army Major who was the advisor the the NVA regiment.
As a reward for our victory they choppered in ice cream from Quang Tri. In my platoon, we'd cached our rucks to maneuver lightly during the battle, so we ended up eating melted, soupy, sickeningly sweet ice cream out of our steel pots after having nothing to eat for 36 hours.
Baitball Blogger
(46,573 posts)China trade deal. Antagonizing China now can only lead to military action, which means that Trump has no respect for the human toll that we sustained back then. I can't see how our military men and women can respect that kind of leader.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-china-taiwan-one-china-trade-tariffs-economy-fox-530673
Baitball Blogger
(46,573 posts)This country should have treated Vietnam Vets better. They were caught in the middle of a political war, as well as the one they fought abroad.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I was badly wounded in a firefight about 7 weeks after that battle and was hospitalized for 18 months. On my first pass from the Army hospital in San Francisco, with only my uniform to wear, I got on a bus and a woman began yelling and screaming at me, calling me 'baby killer' and other names. There were other indignities, but I forgave that woman on the bus and the others long ago.
Some still harbor resentments from those long-ago days, but most of us have moved on and put aside the bygones, and work to support our veterans returning from war today.
Baitball Blogger
(46,573 posts)You're a good man.
jalan48
(13,797 posts)Now Vietnam makes shoes and clothes for big corporations.