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In the 20th century, you might think the collapse of Russia to communism would warn everyone else off.But it was a contagious ideological sickness, a mind virus.Recall: the Soviet Union of the 1950s had just finished three decades of Leninism, Red Terror, and World War. Then Khrushchev gave his secret speech in 1956 repudiating Stalinism, and Soviet communism started moderating……right as Chinese communism of the Maoist variety was accelerating! Because the most bloodthirsty years of Mao actually corresponde ...