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Yes, the USSR was communist in the 1950s. This was during the Cold War, which was between the democratic US and the communist Soviet Union. Today, the USSR is known as Russia, and it is no longer communist. Russia is a Federal semi-presidential democratic republic today, with both a prime minister and a president heading the country.
No country in the world has ever been Communist, in the sense that Marx and Engles would have understood the word. They just pretend they are, then set up a Totalitarian Dictatorship.
No, it was state capitalist. Communism means no classes, no government, no money.
No: it was state capitalist. Communism means no money, no classes, no rulers.
No, it was state capitalist, where those who ran the state formed the ruling capitalist class. Communism means no money, no classes,no government, no borders.
Russia was a communist country between the years 1917 and 1990, so in 1946 it was a communist country.
Officially it was, However it should not be taken as an example of what communism is like.
The USSR was more of a socialist autocracy
Only nominally. They were actually more Socialist than Communist (as might be guessed from the name, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
No, it was state capitalist. Communism means no classes, no money, no government, just people co-operating for the common good.
Before WWI, Russia had been ruled by Tsars, similar to Kings. After WWI, Russia was a communist country known as the Soviet Union. It would be a communist country until 1990, when it became Russia again.
Communism means a classless stateless society based on production for use. Clearly no country became Communist after WW1, and Communism will have to exist at a global level anyway. Russia became state capitalist.
Lenin was relentless in his belief that because Russia was a backward peasant nation that lacked technology, industry, and the accumulated culture required for surpassing the achievements of the Western capitalist countries. He believed the fate of his revolution was dependent upon of at least one of the advanced countries to have a communist revolution and come to the aid of Russia.
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Belgium has never been under Communist rule.