"TXZZ" <superoutland@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:1127906633.713717.201590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> give me your opinion please soviet russia couldnt have lasted so long
> unless maybe communism wasnt as bad as people have been brainwashed to
> believe
>
I agree ignorant Americans know nothing about Communism or about anything, 
except sports and the love affairs of their movie and rock stars. Almost 
nobody in the US can define or describe Communism, even though it has so 
much in common with the present American Republicrat (also known as 
Demopublican) dictatorship. Same huge army of government bureaucrats. Same 
preoccupation with the COMMUNIty interest being more important than that of 
The Individual. Same strive to take over the world. Same believe in their 
system being the best in the universe. Same push for an uncontested national 
religion (theirs was the Atheism).

The advantages of the US Republicratism: higher standard of living for most 
of their people; more freedom to travel the world, more opportunities to 
choose one's business or occupation.

The advantages of the "Advanced Socialism" of the USSR: much less crime, 
less people encaged in their prisons (I have in mind the 1970's and 80's, 
not the Stalinist years), overall direction toward less and less restrictive 
society (the opposite of the direction the US society is currently moving 
toward), employment security, free higher education and medical care.

Bruce M.