The sound you are hearing is air blowing through the holes in your head.
"Blowing holes in your arguments is becoming to easy. By your reckoning, Spain is still a fascist state, after all, how could Franco or his party (granted he died) just leave power?"
If you want to talk about fascism, we'll talk about fascism; if you want to talk about communism, we can talk about communism...make up your mind.
Let's see, I talk about communism, you come back and "counter" with fascism...you need to seek remedial political system classes.
The former Soviet States are far from being completely free of communism.
Your problem is your assumption that communism died a quiet death.
My, but how wrong you are.
Yes, lets avoid all those inconvinient facts in your argument and anything but the narrowly defined group of facts you "allow". Sure, whatever spanky.
Guess what, the US is far from free of communism. There's a new statue of Lenin in Seattle. Oh and then there are the really defunct idjit nations that can't get rid of communists even one bit: N.Korea, Vietnam, Cuba. They have no excuse, definitly no examples or communism international supporting them...guess they just like their ideology.