why is russia a communist state?
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Russia is no longer a communist country. It change with Gorbachav when the Berlin wall was demolished.
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Read the communist manifesto by Karl Marx.  It explains his theory.\n\nThe reason China is communist is because FDR was a marxist at heart, and wasn't concerned about what Mao Se Dong would do to China
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Russia succumbed to the idiocy of socialism.\n\nIt only cost millions of lives for them to realize it was a mistake.
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The system was doomed. Even without the cold war, it would eventually have failed. True communism means "Anthill Society", kind of a wrong species model of government. Humans are not communal bugs.
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North Korea being a communist state is supplied with equipment from Russia. Sure they have the Mig 25s and the T-72 battle tanks and a small Navy. The country touts its nuclear capability so it can get foriegn aid. They are a desolite country and see how well the south is doing and want that too. The military is run by its dicator and have quite a large army. They are held somewhat in check by the S.Koreans and the US Army at the 38 paralell.
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Probably because the rest of the world saw the USSR as a major threat to their way of lives and the US as protectors.  It's ironic that we are now percieved as the major threat to their way of lives.
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The Bolshevic( Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLB(b) party was created in the 1903, in 1952 it was renamed into Communist Party of Soviet Union, this title was used up to 1991 year. Now CPRF (Communist Party of Russian Federation) exists in Russia and there are quite a lot of  elder people who believe in communist ideals and wish to return Soviet times. So, they didn't go anywhere, some are still members of the communist party, others changed their political views. For example, the first president of Russia-Boris Eltsin was a member of CPSU himself, but then turned to democracy.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.\n\nSee link below for more info.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR
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Please!  We all know the definition of Communism in its true since, but China, Cuba an others are still considered Communist countries.  America is a Capitalist/Socialist country as well given that we supply benefits to the elderly and many, many, many other services.\n\nRepublicans like to label Socialism as horrible as if it were a third world country democracy.  Socialism does what a government is suppose to do and that is Protect freedom, and offer services to its people.  Does this not sound like America!!!  Most Socialist countries might pay higher taxes, but there citizens dont pay for health care, retirement and many others we pay a fortune for.  Many citizens in socialist countrys live better lives than we do in America.
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Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement. Communism also refers to a variety of political movements which claim the establishment of such a social organization as their ultimate goal.\n\nAmerica is scared becuase golbally capitalism is on the decline and they see Latin america becoming more and more close to Communist values.
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The hard question would be to name a communist country that did not invade another country and kill its citizenry.\n\nThat is one of the main tenets of communism.  To have a global revolution to establish a World Communist State.  Therefore, communist nations must invade other countries and insight rebellions abroad.\n\nTo give you a few examples, the USSR invaded all of eastern Europe.  China invaded Tibet and South Korea.  North Korea invaded South Korea; and Cuba invaded the Congo and Bolivia.  North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam.  I could go on all night.\n\nThough, I have to say Tofu Jesus is wrong on a couple of points.  China never invaded Taiwan.  At the end of World War II, there was a civil war in China between the Nationalist Chinese and the Communists.  The Communists won, forcing the Nationalist Chinese to flee to Formosa, modern day Taiwan.  And Russia never invaded Germany at least not when it was a communist country.  Russia, or more accurately, the Soviet Union, was invaded by the Nazis, its subsequent invasion of Germany was defensive.  What was the USSR going to do after beating back the Germans?  Stop at their border and do nothing?  Germany had no plans to make peace with the Soviet Union, they would have just re-invaded.\n\nAt the start of World War I, Russia did invade German territory; however, Russia was not communist at that point.  Moreover, Russia only did so to honor its treaty with Serbia.  When the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded Serbia this brought Russia to war with Austria Hungary, which brought Germany into war with Russia, since Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also had an alliance.  In fact, World War I is what made Russia communist.
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CCP is the party that currently controls China, and has for the last 60-ish years: the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nUnless you mean CCCP, which is USSR translated into Russian.
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Russia is a one party dominant state with United Russia in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.\n\nLiberal:\n\nUnion of Right Forces (Союз Правых Сил, Soyuz Pravykh Sil) \nYabloko (Российская Демократическая Партия "Яблоко", Rossiyskaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya "Yabloko")\n\nGoverning Coalition:\nUnited Russia ("Единая Россия", Yedinaya Rossiya) - currently has more than 2/3 in State Duma \nUnity (Yedineniye) \nOur Home is Russia
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Communism is just dictatorship by another name.\n\nUnder the communist system you only require one political party - a party of the people, as every one is equal and therefore the is no requirement for additional parties.\n\nThe old USSR was closer to the true communist system than many people imagined.\n\nEven Karl Marx, regarded as the founder of socialism, did not see communism as being right for the people. He called it a form of State Capitalism, whereby the ruling dictact had absolute control, thereby denying the proletariat (the ordinary people) a say in running the country.
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Russia may be a "Federation" but first and foremost it is broken up into republics. Russia is finding its place with democracy and capitalism. Russia is a vast land that requires a firm hand to guide it. The mafia likes to take advantage of weak governaments and Russia has many assets that can be stolen. Changes since Putin came into office:\n* the ruble has been stable since 98. whereas prior to 98 the ruble collapsed twice.\n* Putin has used the excess funds from oil prices to pay off debt, thereby making Russia a more inviting place for foreigners to invest.\n* he has recently instituted a program to encourage population growth because russia is faced with a negative population growth.\n* Putin managed to secure a deal with the EU to be its main natural gas provider, thereby showing the word that the EU has confidence in Russia and its ability to remain stable and be depended upon to deliver gas.\n* Putin limited access to NGO's and humanitarian groups within the country due to suspicion that they were using funds to attempt a replica of the orange revolution.\n* personally Putin is respected and probably the most popular president within his nation that currently presides.\nOverall Russia is stabilizing and Investors are flocking to get a piece of the pie. Many are unhappy because they wanted to be able to control Russia via the IMF et al. but because Russia is doing so well and paying off its debt. These organizations and the govts behind them are in no position to make demands of them and mold the russian government so that they could profit from them. So despite what some may claim...reality is that people and major corporations are investing in Russia are are accepting that although Russia may not be the biggest fan of "laissez-faire" it is still a stable and profitable place for companies. And isnt that the best indicator of how the govt is doing? Its ability to attract money, create it and multiply it. Which Russia led by Putin has been doing since 1998
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They're communist and their government doesn't like to play well with others.  We especially didn't like the aid they gave to the Soviets during the Cold War and now they're still paying for it.
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Not sure there's a country with a communist govt, thats elected. Communists, once elected do away with elections, and believe in the communist beurocracy.\n\nHowever, there's a state in India - West Bengal, where for the past 30 years, the Communist Party of India has won elections, and have formed the government at the state level. In fact, the last chief minister, Mr Basu, is in the Guinnes Book of World record, as the longest serving democratically elected official in history.