Here is a news flash, just like we discovered in Iraq, everyone who had any kind of office above lower management was a communist party member, that was the law. Ever wonder why the real communists keep dieing of old age, over there, not here, here they keep getting younger with more and more college age air heads. Is flat tax communist? Property rights? Trial by jury? Capitalism? Limited rights to bare arms? Multiple political parties?
Excerpt from Inside Story: World Report, 1995 (well after the Soviet Union supposedly "collapsed")
...To fool outsiders, the KGB has learned to disguise many of its activities through the "Russian mafia." Former KGB officer Golitsyn has revealed that the KGB's Economic Department and the Interior Ministry's OBKhS have penetrated-and even partly created-the black market underworld during the past 70 years.24 Taxation, for example, can now be portrayed as common crime. Timofeyev reports that "according to some reports, anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of produce is regularly stolen from district warehouses. Farmer's markets are under the control of criminal elements, who extract a commission from each seller and force sellers to keep their prices above a certain level."25
Even arms shipments to other Communist regimes are now disguised as business ventures under "mafia" control, giving Yeltsin his excuse for not being able to stop such activities. In 1990, for example, the Soviet business ANT was discovered to have been set up by dozens of KGB officers and Communist Party members, and was shipping tanks out of the country under the guise of selling tractors.26
In short, the Soviet Communist state remains intact, and is quietly accelerating its war against the West. As a part of these activities, the Soviet military is rapidly expanding and preparing for a hot war-a topic to be covered in future issues of World Report...