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Fall of communism

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Communism started in 1917 with the Russian Revolution. When the Communists overthrew the the Tsar and the Romanov Family. The conditions that led to the Russian revolution and Communism were mass poverty, starvation and just horrific living conditions for most of the Russian people in 1917. What happened under communism for the next 80 years in Russia was awful. Millions died under Stalin because he created a man made famine to get rid of a certain ethnic group which resisted his authority. Also anyone suspected of being against the state were put in jail or excuted. This happened on and off for the next fifty years after Stalin died in the 1950's.

People were routinely carted off and never seen again. Many of them were killed by the state. Or just worked to death in labor camps. In some ways life did get better for some people. But alot of people were just getting by. Their were the elites who through corruption and intimidation lived the ultimate lives of luxury, while telling everyone else they had to make sacrifices for the country.

No body owned anything. If you had a car it belonged to the state. If you had a tv it belonged to the state. Basically you had no personal rights at all and no property rights. You could not own your own home, it too belonged to the state. Communism created and caused so much suffering for people in Russia and everywhere else it gained power. Communism as a form of government was a complete disaster. As an idealogy it sounds appealing but when brought into reality it becomes a nightmare. There is lots more but I will end it here. I think this gives you a little idea of Communism was like

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Communism is a political theory or ideology, based on the ideas of Karl Marx, but in various forms the thinking behind it is older. The first country to adopt the ideology in a modified form was the Soviet Union (founded in 1922). The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, but a handful of countries still officially claim to follow Marx's ideas - for example, Cuba and Vietnam.

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It started failing in the late 80's, and it seemed the end of communism in 1992 when the USSR was disbanded.

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Communism in the USSR came to a full stop in 1992, but communism has never stopped. Countries like Moldova and Cuba are communist.

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1992

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1989

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1959.

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1991

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