Don't be silly Charles. Everybody knows that before 1917 Russia was just like modern Switzerland.
Apropos: My girlfriend from Kazakhstan was complaining last night about how much she can't stand people who look down on others because they earn more money. I said that that was part of any capitalist society. Her reaction was "Yes, I forgot, you were born into this shitty system and are used to it. " :)
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> CB: Yes, of course. Are you crazy !? The SU was a world historic improvement
> over the ancien regime of Russia and was the bulwark of national liberation
> anti-colonial revolutions throughout the 20th Century, the great achievement
> of humanity for that period.
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