All of the anti-soviet and anti-communist trolls will get their just punishment in due time. If it wasn't for Soviet Union, we would all be speaking deutsch right now. And if it wasn't for Soviet Union, we wouldn't have Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Shostakovich, Bulgakov, Alexei Tolstoy, Belyaev, Ilf and Petrov, Sholokhov, nor Lebedev, Popov or Lysenko for that matter. Only in socialism can a person from a simple background express themselves in art, science and craftsmanship unheeded, because in socialism human life and achievement means more than money. The society we're currently living in cares only about money. Do you think our governments care if you or I died tomorrow? They couldn't give less of a damn if they tried. Also, if communism is so evil and authoritarian and full of holes, then why was Einstein a communist? The man who single-handedly revolutionized science, a modern-day Isaac Newton, a genius among geniuses, and he was a communist. Paul Robeson, Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. favored socialism, as did Gandhi, who had correspondence with Lenin and Leo Tolstoy. Are you going to say that Gandhi, the man who brought us the code of peace and showed us our errors in the Seven Blunders of society, supported a regime that was on par with fascism? Obviously not. And why? Because the Soviet Union, under Lenin, Stalin and Brejnyev mind you, because Khrushchyev and Gorbachev were about as communist as Winston Churchill. Fascist trolls, spreading their anti-communist, pro-capitalist propaganda, supporting the bankers that are sending men to kill innocents and die for money, you always harp on Stalin and Lenin, but I never hear a peep from you about Khrushchyev or Gorbachov. Why not, I wonder? Like automated puppets they keep repeating "Stalin killed millions" and "Stalin had a cult of personality", but Khrushchyev, who deliberately instigated a famine, ruined Russia's economy and damaged foreign relations, is the real tyrannical dictator around here. Gorbachov is in the same boat, guilty of the same crimes. Also: what about US and European presidents? What, nobody ever dies in a Western prison? Secret labor camps don't exist? Capital punishment isn't a thing? Men don't join up the army and other armed forces in order to either senselessly kill or be killed? And that isn't "killing millions", apparently, that's just average western politics. But how dare communists try to make an equal society! Those bloody wankers! And our politicians don't have cults of personality? /Obama trading cards/. Hillary Clinton "dabbing" on the Ellen Degeneres Show. Queen Elizabeth action figures (officially licensed!). 'Nuff said. Lenin was the second coming of Jesus Christ -- he brought literacy and a clear ideology that the majority of mankind, the working men and women, the elderly, the feeble and the young, student and worker, soldier and veteran, christian, jew, hindi, muslim or atheist, can and should strive for. Of course the ignorant trolls don't care about what other people, impoverished or ailing or otherwise at a disadvantage, need, and what they need and want is communism, aka. social democracy. The trolls always argue "nyeh communism will take away my private property" -- yet I doubt they even own the house they live in! Most residences are either mortgaged or rented. We don't have any private property. All we have is our own bodies, our minds, our souls and our family, and we're not going to give any of that up. We'll keep reading the works of Lenin, we'll keep listening to Prokofiev's beautiful melodies, and we'll keep protecting our family, our land and our minds from fascism, imperialism and capitalism, regardless what the cost. Before the edit, I posted that I'm American, not Russian. To tell the truth, I am American first, Russian second, and German third, because of a multicultural immigrant background, like most Americans. I have met with a lot of Eastern Europeans from the USSR and communists all over the world, and many of my relatives and ancestors lived in the Soviet Union, in the Weimar Republic, in the Bavarian Soviet Republic (there was one, briefly, during the Weimar period!) and had visited the GDR and many Soviet states. I have never met a communist who wasn't against racism, sexism, inequality, injustice, slavery and exploitation. To me, though, I am an American first and foremost, and I look up to other patriotic American socialists, from Ed Boyce to Jack London, and I unite Christianity with Communism because I believe in both. I leave with these quotes by Lenin: "That today, when the wave has ebbed, there remain and will remain only real Marxists, does not frighten us but rejoices us." "The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism." "Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people." "Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed."