The Soviet Union

I think that while the premise behind the Soviet Union was well intentioned, what it turned into was nothing short of an abomination. Much of that is due to the policies of Stalin and his whole cult of personality thing he had going on, but the repressive nature of the state in question can't be understated on a whole. Vladimir Lenin formed the Soviet Union with the intention of creating a state where everyone was equal. He wanted to create a state in which the poor are given the justice they had been denied and property was redistributed equally among all of the people. Marxism was one of the main founding philosophies behind the Soviet Union and I think that if it had been employed with it's truest intentions, the Soviet Union could have been a paradise for the working class. However, we all know that's not how things worked out. Instead of total equality, the ruling politburo that ran things ended up being one of the most corrupt institutions in history. I wrote about communism a while back, and as I looked over that last entry, my take from it hasn't changed. Communism, while it looks good on paper, fails to take into account the basic aspects of our human nature. Some people will always want more, and they'll always find a way to get it. That's exactly what happened in the Soviet Union. State officials lived in more or less luxury, while the common man that they idealized, lived in complete squalor. Not to mention the fact that the state run media lied to the people on almost a daily basis concerning matters of how the state was doing in comparison to the rest of the world. I think that if human nature was fundamentally different, communism could be the perfect form of government. Unfortunately that's just not the case, and we saw how that played out with the Soviet Union. To put it bluntly, it did not turn out very well.