[In_Iowa_not_from]

many of the most gullible have been on FR for 20 or so years

Dementia or alzheimers? Maybe they are reliving the 1950s when Russia was communist and the USA was free.

[dforest]

There was the Soviet Union. Many still call it that. If it was, they would be talking about the Soviet Ukraine.

Maybe it was these years of sitting under our desks to survive Khrushchev’s nukes. Made people batty.