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The Communist Experiment: Oppressive, Brutal, And Totalitarian Regime

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The communist experiment generated oppressive, brutal, and totalitarian regimes because an elastic concept of the enemy came to be not only surviving remnants of the old pre revolutionary elites, but also, high-ranking members and longtime supporters of the Communist Party who had allegedly been corrupted by bourgeois ideas. As a result of Marxist thinking, these people became social enemies and were seen as betrayers of the revolution. They were engaged in a vast conspiracy, and were often linked to foreign imperialist, to subvert the socialist enterprise and restore capitalism. In an effort to combat capitalism and instill socialist values , communist regimes promoted the communist party 's penetration of all levels of society in ways that
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