So ridiculous that its still necessary to make Ivo's statement of plain historical facts yet again. In fact, its not just Russia though that is where the the Marxist theocrats first seized state power. Since then, over half of humanity across the plant has suffered death, famine, poverty and gross underdevelopment at the hands of socialist theology of one variant or another, to one degree or another - depending on the degree of fundamentalist piety of the local priesthood. All I would add to Ivo's piece is a list of (some) of these unfortunate countries; China, India, Ethiopia, Kampuchea, North Korea, Angola, Romania, Poland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Venezuela, and so on, and on, and on ...