# communisim

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communisim/4159
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 19, 1999, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communisim/4159 "1999-10-19T04:41:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)
#### Post date: [October 23, 1999, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communisim/4159/41 "1999-10-23T07:51:00Z")

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Have you been following “The Red Files” on PBS? It looks like we really didn’t need to do squat against the Soviet Union.  
They bluffed us into spending billions in areas we’d never have thought of going.  
Including the moon.

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### Author: ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [October 23, 1999, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communisim/4159/42 "1999-10-23T20:48:00Z")

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Eggo: The main problem with Communism from our standpoint was that it was an expansionist philosophy. We may have been a bit overly paranoid about it, but it is true that the Soviet Union was engaging in an active campaign to overthrow other governments, invade other countries, and/or bribe them into joining the communist power bloc.

Also, I find the ‘not-in-our-backyard’ philosophy to be repugnant. If Hitler hadn’t threatened us but stayed home and quietly exterminated six million Jews should we have let him? The Communists racked up a body count that makes Hitler look like an Amateur.

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### Author: ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)
#### Post date: [October 24, 1999, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communisim/4159/43 "1999-10-24T04:41:00Z")

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thanks for the reply, that answered it for me.

eggo

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### Author: ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)
#### Post date: [October 24, 1999, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communisim/4159/44 "1999-10-24T11:59:00Z")

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## Please continue your discussion in the _Great Debates_ forum.

Nickrz  
GQ Mod

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