# 1975-1990, the USSR was arguably the least bad of the three imperial superpowers

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**Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1975-1990-the-ussr-was-arguably-the-least-bad-of-the-three-imperial-superpowers/745246/69 "2016-02-09T23:06:42Z")

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Yeah, I think Bernie was a peacenik, not a Fellow Traveler or whatever the term is. He seems mostly to have been associated with Trotskyists, not Stalinists, which undermines any claims of Moscow sympathies.

BTW, I accept that my contention has been defeated quite handily. I concede that the USSR was, overall, more brutally imperialistic than the USA, pre-Gorbachev.

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