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HAving visited Russia three times – twice on cultural exchanges during the Soviet years – and once during the capitalist period, I saw little difference. It’s not an issue of capitalism vs.communism. It’s an issue of the corruption endemic to Russia under ALL systems. The tsar’s Okhrana, Lenin’s Cheka (and thenKGB) and Russian Mafia are all basically the same people with same intent. The communists, as we know from the Gulag, were just more efficient at killing people.