I don't see anything that's absurd. Jtdirl
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which seems pretty defensible at first glance and certainly not
"vandalism".
I agree. The text is highly problematic in places, and needs NPOV
work in many ways, *however* it is certainly not "vandalism" or
anything of the sort. It needs softening and formalizing.
Typically a communist state is characterized by
grinding [[poverty]], a
bloated [[bureaucracy]], diversion of resources into [[military]]
assets, a general loss of [[morale]] by the general population, and
[[political stability|instability]] marked by periodic [[rebellion]]s
which are brutally repressed. A communist state is characterized by the
sharp division of the population into two castes, party members and the
rest of the population. A small group, the [[politbureau]], typically
consisting of less than 10 people, sometimes only 1, within the party
hold any real power or have access to accurate information. A large
[[secret police]] apparatus closely monitors the population.
[[Concentration camp]]s and other facilities are used to incarcerate
those dissidents which are not liquidated.
There have been two major communist states, The [[Soviet Union]] and its
satellites and the [[People's Republic of China]]. Minor states include
[[Yugoslavia]], [[Cuba]], [[Viet Nam]] and [[North Korea]]. The pattern
varies in each with those clinging most closely to communist ideals
being most characteristically totalitarian, impoverished, militaristic,
and static. Attempts to incorporate [[democracy|democratic]] principles
as in the case of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev,
[[socialism|socialist]] principles as in Yugoslavia,or
[[capitalism|capitalistic]] techniques as in China result in some
mitigation of the negative features of the communist state but sometimes
result in dynamic situations which may undermine the control of the
party over the state or even lead to its collapse.
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