# Bernie's Soviet "honeymoon" and trips to Nicaragua and Cuba are disqualifying.

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**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernies-soviet-honeymoon-and-trips-to-nicaragua-and-cuba-are-disqualifying/745209 "2016-02-05T06:15:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernies-soviet-honeymoon-and-trips-to-nicaragua-and-cuba-are-disqualifying/745209/266 "2016-02-09T23:12:21Z")

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Anyway, I concede that a post of mine earlier in this thread was resoundingly defeated in the thread started to challenge it.

> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> Meh.
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> In the period from 1975-1990, the USSR was arguably the least bad of the three imperial superpowers.
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> [snip]
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> If Bernie was cozying up to the Russia bloc while the right wing were cozying up to the Maoists, yeah, he looks _better_ than the people who have been running the country since then.
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> But by all means, let’s dredge up that history, and see what the younger generation think of it.

Thanks to XT and Deeg, among others, for reminding me that central Europe, while not the hellhole China and the USA made of Cambodia, was very much under the Russian boot.

That said, I quote myself here, as relevant to this thread:

> [@1975-1990, the USSR was arguably the least bad of the three imperial superpowers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1975-1990-the-ussr-was-arguably-the-least-bad-of-the-three-imperial-superpowers/745246/69):
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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.

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