For a majority of countries and peoples who have experienced first hand socialist revolutions and communist movements which have existed from time to time; Patriotism has been intrinsic to those movements' development. The popularity of Communism and Socialism in American and in the west is based on something entirely different, however, then previous socialisms. In fact it tends to be based upon a calvinistic desire to apoligize for the crimes committed in service of continueing the british .
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