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<p>A communist state is a state with a form of government characterized by single-party rule or dominant-party rule of a communist party and a professed allegiance to a Leninist or Marxist-Leninist communist ideology as the guiding principle of the state. No country has ever been Communist in the true sense of the word. All practiced an extreme form of Socialism (there were class distinctions in the USSR, for one).</p>
<p>The USSR/PCR aren’t Communist countries much like the United States isn’t a Democracy, but rather a Constitutional Republic.</p>