Thread: Communism: Do Russians think the USSR was communist?

Originally Posted by Chemist12

Another way to put it is if I flew a Russian to the new communist country of "Esidian", a country that is nothing like the USSR whatsoever, would Russians say to themselves: "hey, this is a communist country"? or would they say: "what sort of country is this?".

Коммунистическая страна makes no sense in soviet political terms.

"В этой стране строят коммунизм" — "They develop communism in this country", they would say.