Quote Originally Posted by Lost Number
Communism was a complete flop in Russia.
I wouldn't say that. It made them a super-power after WW2. Before WW2, during the Tsar's rule, they were suffering. The majority of the population were peasants, while the royal familuy and few others were really rich; who's to say that Russia would even remotely be where it is today without Communism? These rich-poor number numbers were small and huge; the gap was unreal.

It did make them a super-power, and something, somehow mucked up in there. It could be anti-Communist attitudes (Containment)...any number of factors. I haven't studied this bit of Soviet history, so I haven't identified what just yet; but I wouldn't say it was a complete flop.