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Please re-read what I wrote, that is not what I said. I can have a whole discussion about the issues about what modern Russia is and is not, what it is doing, Putin's Russia and its relation to the USSR, the spectre of Communism, how 'Communism' is an emotionally-loaded buzzword that gets wrongly thrown around as a scare/distraction tactic, how it is very strange to call most things in, coming out of, or related to Putin's Russia "Communist" and much more... However, seeing how you have argued with people here before, I don't want to split hairs with you so will not continue this discussion.

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Although just to clarify matters, I have ties in, loved ones in, and a degree specialising in the former USSR, and know well the horrors of Communism in this admittedly very broad area, so I would never want it to come across like I was defending the ideology.