Did you know the Soviet Union was actually a decent place to live and a success?

[darik2]

I'm assuming that, since you use the past tense "was", the Soviet Union is no longer what you claim? Oh, I didn't click on the link due to the possibility of it being a malicious website. And, all that crap is too long. Be succinct. Look it up if you're having trouble.

Try again.

[roche]

If you are trying to say the ussr was as successful as the us you are absolutly wrong because the soviet union doesnt exist anymore . If it was such a great place then why is russia considered a capatalist nation now?

[karlitis]

Having all the commodities of life is not a good trade for freedom of mind.
There was no religious freedom in the Soviet Union. As much as I think religions are ridiculous, people should be free to believe whatever the heck they want without fear of death.

There was censorship of the press, to prevent "undermining the revolution"
http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/liste.html?tid=415&art_id=475

You can't tell me a country with only one political party was a free country.

everything was done for the political party. ONLY the political partty was free to create trade unions or organize labor. where the heck is the freedom there??
http://www.angelfire.com/de/Cerskus/english/links1.html

NO freedom of political dissent. At least in the U.S. you don't have to fear death for being openly communist, or adhering to political views that are not popular. This was not true in the soviet Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_Soviet_Union

O what's this? forced labor camps in the Soviet Union?
http://www.osaarchivum.org/gulag/txt1.htm

Some of your criticism of the U.S. and other capitalist powers are right on point, but I don't like when people tell half-truths just to defend their side. Don't hide the TRUTH.

[macquaid35]

Right...sure it was "great".

Oh, and like the USSR wasn't imperialist. Show me where it actually says people made a half decent income and didn't work like slaves to their jobs. Show me a non-biased source that says the health care was good. All you can do is spout communist crap...moron.

I also laughed pretty damn hard at your fake execution stats.
And then I laughed harder at "Only one million".

Also, just because a place is/was an industrial powerhouse, doesn't mean it's a good place to live. Do you think the average Chinese person makes a half decent living?