Why We Fought to Defend the USSR

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That's somewhat true to an extent. There's plenty of real, honest people in our government across the country. There's also enough rules, regulations, and checks&balances to keep a certain level of corruption from happening. I think that's a little extreme what you're saying there.

Democracy/Republic is a government system, and capitalism is an economic system, but true communism has both government and capitalism wrapped up in one. The economy side we all know--everyone gets the same junk. It's an extreme socialism. Government: it's pure democracy--every single person has the same vote and political power as every other single person. When the USSR collapes and became capitalist and democratic, it shifted both economically and politically--also, one of the most enormous shifts ever considering how giant and gelatonous that federation was. It stands to reason that either halves of communism shifting would bring social, economical, and political problems.