• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      You can argue if they had sunshine scenario communism all day, but they certainly was under the oppressive thumb of USSR.

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      1 year ago

      Technically correct. They were under Stalins Marxism-Leninism, which was supposed to be a placeholder until true communism could be implemented.

      But it’s a bit disingenuous to split that hair in this thread. The irony being that the latter are all countries that got to experience the kind of gouvernemental structure that Lenin facilitated.