• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Flip it around.

    They were authoritarian dictatorships and kleptocracies that paid lip service to communism.

    The USSR was the closest to communism, but of course all the power and money got pulled to the top and the people got to live with the nominal structure of it.

    Little bit like the US… a capitalist country with a free market, but again, all the power and money get pulled to the top to keep their bank accounts safe and the people get to live with the fallout of market volatility.

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      5 months ago

      Lenin the guy that “brought” communism to the USSR was a dictator from day one. What are you talking about?

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        5 months ago

        That’s what I said?

        They’re dictatorships that someone slaps the world “communism” on? They have the trappings of communism for the common people but shovel all the money and power to the top like a dictatorship. Don’t know why it isn’t clear