> Any way you look at it, the Soviet Union 1) suppressed freedom and 2) espoused militarism. What human organization with a military arm doesn't do that? And

> Any way you look at it, the Soviet Union 1) suppressed freedom and 2) espoused militarism. What human organization with a military arm doesn't do that? And for that matter how are you even defining freedom? The defense of freedom in the abstract is worse than meaningless.