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[KrooK]

Venezuela isn't communist. Sweden isn't communist. Norway isn't communist. Bolivia isn't communist.

Venezuela is becoming communist country. Chavez lost last election when he wanted change constitution and take absolute power but communisation is into progress. I have no info about Bolivia.

Sweden and Norway are not socialist coutries. They are social countries which is big difference - social welfare state is not socialism. Into Germany, Sweden and Norway you can have real private property and public sector is rather small.

Franco saved Spain from communist because he stopped Peoples Front.
What was peoples front - socialist and communist together whom promise people golden mountains, won election and started changing Spain into USSR (which was not their promise).

And what is interesting - that fascist finished war into Spain, didn't took part into WW2 while socialists (from name like from name but communist generally used name socialists - Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) started war as allies of III Reich. I prefer "fascists" like Franco or Mannerheim than "socialists" like Stalin, Mao and Chavez.

[Geoffrey S]

Is it so hard to spot vicious regimes on all sides of the political spectrum?

Lol @KrooK. As per usual.

[Kralizec]

NK doesn't claim to be socialist. Their official ideology is called "Juche", meaning "self-reliance" but wich amounts to an extreme form of stalinism.

Anyway, invasion is not an option. I understand that NK has hundreds of artillery pieces pointed at Seoul with the standing order of firing in the event that communications break down. For the deterrence factor it's a lot more effective than their nuclear program, wich I always figured was meant more for extorting SK and America into giving them more fossil fuel. I haven't been following the news regarding this for a long time, however.

[Tribesman]

Lol @KrooK. As per usual.

Hey come on be fair , there wasn't a single reference to Polish superiority in that post so you can hardly call it the usual .

Though I suppose you are right , it is a very funny rant .

[Quirinus]

And what is interesting - that fascist finished war into Spain, didn't took part into WW2 while socialists (from name like from name but communist generally used name socialists - Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) started war as allies of III Reich.

Bah. I wonder exactly how much of Spain's decision not to join the Second World War had to do with ideology, and how much had to do with pragmatism. The official end of war in Spain hardly meant that peace and order was suddenly restored. There were outbreaks of guerilla warfare and savage reprisals way after the end of the war.

And the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggresion pact. Which is not the same as a binding alliance. Lest you forget, out of all the combatants, the Soviet Union suffered the most casualties in the war, fighting --whoops! the Third Reich.