The Soviet Union was Communist

Please excuse me I apologize for such an inconvenience. ;D The Soviet Union is DEAD it lasted from 1922-1991 just as I also have very little experience in debating as I just joined the site a few weeks ago. Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), also called (1925"52) All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Russian Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, or Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (Bolshevikov), the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers" Party (RSDWP). The Bolsheviks, organized in 1903, were led by Vladimir I. Lenin, and they argued for a tightly disciplined organization of professional revolutionaries who were governed by democratic centralism and were dedicated to achieving the dictatorship of the proletariat. In 1917 they formally broke with the right, or Menshevik, wing of the RSDWP. In 1918, when the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia, they changed their organization"s name to the All-Russian Communist Party; it was renamed the All-Union Communist Party in 1925 after the founding of the U.S.S.R. and finally to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952. The Communist Party arose in opposition to both capitalism and the socialists of the Second International who had supported their capitalist governments during World War I. The name communist was specifically taken to distinguish Lenin"s followers in Russia and abroad from such socialists. Now the Soviets had a political party for communists and Ill get into how it correlates with the subject but instead ill refute what you said on "Communist countries have no organized military whatsoever. Russia was one of the biggest military superpowers for its time back then, and it certainly lacked any kind of Communist traits." Actually China is the worlds leading communist country having a large organized military to boot. It may not be pure communism but its communism alright. Anyway communism is a form of government as from this site on gov archetypes Communist - a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single -- often authoritarian -- party holds power; state controls are imposed with the elimination of private ownership of property or capital while claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people (i.e., a classless society). Socialism - a government in which the means of planning, producing and distributing goods is controlled by a central government that theoretically seeks a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor; in actuality, most socialist governments have ended up being no more than dictatorships over workers by a ruling elite. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Soviets were indeed communist and will be if they comeback. sites http://www.livescience.com... http://www.britannica.com...