Most South American countries, China, Japan, Spain, France, Egypt, Syria, India, and the New South African Republic.
Interesting, the United States has troops and or bases in... hang on, lemme get the list:
Iraq, Afghanistan (both classified as active combat zones), South Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Kuwait, and a bunch of other places, all by treaty and non-occupational.
They're occupying Eastern Turkey, Afghanistan, and parts of northern Iran and China in violation of international law, and maintain capitalist puppet regimes in Sweden and Rumania.
Here, Turkey joined NATO, an alliance composed of the US and most of Western and Southern Europe, so an invasion would have lead to global war, but they did invade unaligned Afghanistan to impose a communist government. Iran was not invaded, but had a revolution against its monarch, and formed what amounts to a theocratic (Islamic) republic. China (mainland) wen communist at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, but has since moved largely toward a state capitalist system to prevent a Soviet-style fall.
The present school of thought is that free speech is always to be allowed, except when intentional harm is intended. Just as shouting "fire!" in a crowded building or threatening someone is an intentional attempt to cause harm, then so are all other attempts to cause harm through abuse of communication channels. This obviously includes any offensive language - racism, sexism, religious bias, homophobia etc., as well as malicious libel including unsupported allegations of ulterior motives, and any attempt to incite violence, suggest violence, or organize violent uprising. As an example, the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Democrat-Republican alliance would have to end their "Taking Back America" campaign, as it implied a desire for violent insurrection ("taking back").
I see. Who is leading the Democratic-Republican Alliance?
Also, I note mentions of prohibition of religious bias. Here, communist nations were frequently very, very hostile to religion, persecuting and often executing persons and espousing state atheism.
Of course, so long as it is orderly, legitimate, registered, and non-violent. Why, last week I stood outside the State House demanding an end to political corruption.
Register? How difficult is it for someone to secure a registration?
Russia? Surely you must be joking.
Afraid not, pal. I'm a bit of a history buff, so I would know.
How curious! Russia only became a republic in 1965 as far as I know.
Well, Russia is democratic now, but its had a few rocky years, and their current Prime Minister (and former President) Vladimir Putin has a fairly firm grip on the country.
How awful! You must live in a horrible dictatorship for such an awful economic system to be maintained. I hope you're safe writing this.
Actually, no. We have elections regularly, free, fair, and open. In 2008, we elected Barack Obama, an African-American, to the Presidency, replacing George Bush, who had been elected in 2000 and 2004. We have democracy at the local, state, and national level. Incidentally, you probably didn't have the direct election of Senators by the time the revolution occurred. Well, we do. I could go on about the problems the system has, but it is largely fair and functional.
Oh, that's just reactionary propaganda. Don't listen to it.
Sorry, no. Believe me, its true, no propaganda. The media, while possessed of its own problems, would have to have been keeping up the farce for about 20 years now, and millions of Americans have traveled to Russia and other former communist countries. Its a fact.
Well, that's what happens when you don't have a proletariat. Clearly the plutocratic elements in Russia had such a stranglehold on society that they were never able to fully relent and allow a true revolution to develop.
Well, they pretty much slaughtered the business class, and imposed a highly-centralized state economy. They definitely made great economic progress in the 1920s and 1930s, and were in good enough shape to slug it out with Germany in the Second World War (and, in combination with the other Allies, win), but the central economy proved hideous inefficient. It was all they could do to maintain military and technological parity (or, more frequently, near-parity) with the West, and couldn't hope to supply the consumer goods that the West enjoyed, and they collapsed.
And, of course, adding in the massive environmental damage, monstrous corruption, mass murders of political enemies (several million Ukrainians in a deliberate famine by the government), suppression of any and all dissent, combined to bring them down.
I'm vastly simplifying things, but thats the gist of it.
Ah, so I see your Socialists have sold out on the People and have merely embraced Social Fascism to sprinkle a few bread crumbs to the plebes while the fruits of their labor are carted away by bankers and organized industry.
Not really. Fascism went down hard with the Second World War, and, while a political dirty word, there isn't a true fascist country anymore. Plenty of countries have aspects of fascism, but nobody will admit to it.