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by dingnuts 290 days ago
those stupid ignorant Americans who associate the United Soviet Socialist Republic with socialism. where did they ever get the idea that socialism has ever been tried???

don't worry, I associate Marxism with REAL socialist regimes, like Cambodia

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Just like we associate the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea with democracy and republicanism :-)
> those stupid ignorant Americans who associate the United Soviet Socialist Republic with socialism

It was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, not the United Soviet Socialist Republic, and if you believe that ideological faction and their naming of governments, I want to see your face when you learn about the German Democratic Republic and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Pssst: or the DRC