<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Max)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> What about communism?</p> Not so much but they had control of the two biggest countries at one point (Russia and China) Although i strongly disagree with it the base of it wasn't such a bad idea it was just Executed very Poorly. Though i still think Roman, Mongolian and English beats it </p> </div></p> </p> Communism as an Empire? I'm not sure that sounds right. Communism is more of a Government and a way of life, and to me, it was more like the countries that "used(?)" Communism were allies, and were not all under one control...except in the case of Russia, but the countries it took control of were taken as a result of WW2.</p> That's how I see it, at least: That Communism simply "united" countries because they all shared the same Government and way of life, but still left most of them under separate control.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (peg182)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Max)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> What about communism?</p> Not so much but they had control of the two biggest countries at one point (Russia and China) Although i strongly disagree with it the base of it wasn't such a bad idea it was just Executed very Poorly. Though i still think Roman, Mongolian and English beats it </p> </div></p> </p> Communism as an Empire? I'm not sure that sounds right. Communism is more of a Government and a way of life, and to me, it was more like the countries that "used(?)" Communism were allies, and were not all under one control...except in the case of Russia, but the countries it took control of were taken as a result of WW2.</p> That's how I see it, at least: That Communism simply "united" countries because they all shared the same Government and way of life, but still left most of them under separate control.</p> </div></p> Yeh but when you learn what Russia and the red Empire did to the smaller Baltic countries when they didn't comply is pretty Barbaric to say the least. And it was an Empire of sorts IMO as one leader (Stalin) Controlled many countries so surely it qualifies as an empire?</p> </p>
I'm not particularly proud of considering the current Iraq war in this light, but being objective its certainly plausable that "acquiring" Iraq (currently) and spreading USA ideologies (democracy) and culture could be seen as a more modern iteration of the USA empire.</p>
