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It’s only the hard leftists that claim that none of the monoliths of the Second World were “truly communist”.

And if Putin is “not communist”, then the only alternative is fascist.

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When a hard leftist claims that the Soviets weren't true Communists, he's basically saying that they weren't communist enough.

When many commentators across the political spectrum doubt that Russia was ever truly communist it is more from a belief that the Soviet leaders were behaving as cynically as all authoritarian leaders do.

For example, we have someone in the Whitehouse now who claims to be a believer in America and all her great traditions while running an administration for himself, by himself in secrecy and in complete violation of the word and spirit of our Constitution.

Just like the Soviets paid lip service to Marx, Obama is paying lip service to Lincoln and Washington.