Its heyday on earth thereafter. At one point or another in the 20th century, the list of countries that ran on a communist system of government was a really, really big list. Right . The soviet union, yugoslavia, poland, romania, hungary, east germany, czechoslovakia, albania, bulgaria, right on our doorstep in the western hemisphere, of course, was cuba. Africa, the middle east, central asia, there was afghanistan, angola, ethiopia, mozambique, south yemen, somalia. Far east in southeast asia, of course, there was vietnam, north korea, laos, cambodia, mongolia, the big one, china. Talk about red states, right . In the heyday of communism, there were lots of communist countries not quite all over the world, but over really big swaths of the world. Turns out, though, that communism in practice is a pretty terrible way to run countries. Send your hate mail to rachel msnbc. Com. In any event, the soviet union, itself, collapsed of its own weight in the late 1980s. The soviet union was gon
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