On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:25 PM, frank theriault wrote:
On 4/26/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I base that comment on the name that the Soviets gave to their party. Perhaps it was a bad translation, but when they spoke of their party in English, they'd called it the Communist Party. As Luben says, they are more correctly called State Communists. This and most of our disagreements are about terminology rather than facts. I'm going to drop this now as well.The ruling party of the USSR certainly considered themselves
communists. Whether they lived up to the ideals of communism is another
thing.
I don't know on what you base that comment, Paul. I don't know what they "considered" themselves, but they were neither communists nor Marxists.
By the way, I'm quite fond of my Soviet made Leica clone. It's a IIIc lookalike with an Industar 50/w collapsible. Nice camera and a good lens. Of course a lot of the Soviet lens makers made some nice 42mm screwmount lenses as well. Now, we're back on topic :=)
