Yeah, but I don't think that any communist regime could last for very long. It kind of runs on human fuel, and enslave people long enough and they will probably fight back.

I'm saying is that they had dissent in the beginning, middle, and end. Stalin sort of helped bring about their destruction, but they would have faced destruction regardless. Perhaps they could have outsed American control (which, according to Cloud No. 9, makes them a potential utopia), but they would have faltered after awhile.

Communism is pretty lame all around.