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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
"Our communist country is nothing like the Soviet Union! Look how modern and progressive we are! Look at all the cool #### we make!"
*glances at new Hong Kong laws passed and the immediate use of the laws to go after political dissidents and writing that criticizes the government*
"What?! Come on, our laws that suppress free speech and political criticism are nothing like the laws that suppressed free speech and political criticism in the Soviet Union. We don't even have a Siberia to send them to!"
The more things change...the more they stay the same. To all those young idealists who love communism after taking a single political science class, this is what you get in that system, over, and over, and over again.
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What on earth are you talking about? China is not the Soviet Union. There are many valid criticisms of Chinese government, but to say modern China is just communism like the Soviet Union is just uninformed.