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Originally Posted by johnpr
so where did you get the "we would be communist" thing? i have never heard that before, and yes if we would have been communist it would be possible that we would have the internet today and free discussion, my friend from russia says she used it all the time before moving here, in fact that is how she met her current husband, and guess what? they are moving back to post communist russia.
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The Internet, as we know it, came about after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia and the Soviet Union are not the same thing. The Soviet Union was controlled by communists and they did not have freedom of information or speech.