tanky, wasn't India technically an 'unaligned nation' during the cold war? NEways...
the fascination i hold for the Soviets lies mostly in some of their humorously serious moments and such, er whatever. you can tell from some of the stuff i wrote.
personally, communism is a simply a style of government. it worked, but only if it was maintained by an honest and efficient system. stalin made it close to what hitler's nazism was, and the latter days of the soviet state saw rampent corruption and economic problems. it was a system of government that worked, its just that....
WHOOOOOPS!! whoa, almost went way over the off topic limits. well that sucks. i almost forgot about those. damn
as for soviet partiotism, hey it was somebody's country too? that statement back there Reb, well thats the equivalent of an anti-america arab guy saying "American patriotism...this is a bad thing....very bad." Just saying. after all this is a free country, and the fact that anybody can say sh!t like that, is well one of the reasons why america won out in the end.
rather than have bloody revolutions every year or every ten years, america holds that every 4 years, we get to redecide the government peacefully. generally, the majority is happy with the result, and if not, then we have only four more years to wait to change it to something else. thats the real power of democracy
.....oh, and DOUBLE D- Solidarity my friend, Solidarity!