and of course the 
libs are clapping like seals and posting the most unfathomably incorrect takes like they know their shit
massive brainworms
One reason might be that USSR and ColdWar were about Communism and not Socialism.
Most Americans, don't know the difference nor do they care.
please fucking kill me
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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The kernel of truth here is that in the absence of a generational soviet enemy to point at, a huge amount of anticommunist (anti-Soviet) mythology has been rendered into weightless floating signifiers about 1894 Stalin Farm for anyone under a certain age, and most of what's left our modern "socialist" boogeymen, are just basic policies necessary to have a society that our ghoul overlords have now spent decades villifying. There are a lot of busy people who only pay vague attention to political theater, and for them, when they think Socialism they think about basic concrete things to be able to live.