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There are a couple things communism is very good at...

1. Literacy... This is historically true be it russia or cuba. Communist countries strive to teach their population how to read and write, during the Cold War Russia actually had a higher literacy rate then the United States.

2. Emergency Health Care... This is one people don't actually know about most of the time. There are two key measures of quality of health care in a nation. The first is the infant mortality rate, and the second is life expectancy. Cuba, a tropical nation with tropical diseases and what could best be described as a third-world economy actually has a lower infant mortality rate then the United States and only a slightly shorter life expectancy.

3. Military capacity... A communist country is capable of supporting a much larger military then a capitalistic one. The main reason for this is that the arms manufacturers don't need to make a profit. Because of this a communist nation can build more tanks and equipment of equal quality to a capitalist nation per monetary investment. (Remnants of this remain in the russian military development. The factories are owned by the government and the government merely pays the design teams for their designs. Sukhoi and Mikoyan aren't companies per say, but teams of designers. They don't build planes, but merely create the blueprints. Hence they've been able to develop and build planes faster then Lockheed Martin or Boeing).

Things many people claim that aren't true.

1. Lack of personal freedoms, especially the right to bear arms. LOL. Did you know that the second biggest gun culture in the world is Russia? That government owned factories of Tula and Izhamash produce hundreds of thousands of hunting rifles and semi-automatic carbines for home defense? Now often times the media is controlled by the government and is always owned by the government, but then so is the BBC. Yes Russia did have a police state setup... but how often do you hear about Cubans being hauled off to some god forsaken corner of the island and worked to death.

Conclusions.

Communism works so long as its in a third-world country, not ruled by Kim Jong-Il, and there's nothing valuable enough in the country for the party bosses to steal. Ex. Cuba.

Mandalore why would you play Left 4 Dead on the Xbox? It would be smarter to play it on the computer.

That we call ourselves Mandalorians and we shall be recognized or the world shall burn at our feet!!