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Communist Countries in History

Can you name all the countries of the world that have ever been run as a single-party Marxist state?
Some of these countries no longer exist!
Warsaw Pact signatories in red
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Years
Country
1978–1992
Afghanistan
1946–1992
Albania
1975–1992
Angola
1975–1990
Benin
1946–1990
Bulgaria
1979–1989
Cambodia
1949–
China
1959–
Cuba
1948–1990
Czechoslovakia
Years
Country
1949–1990
East Germany
1987–1991
Ethiopia
1979–1983
Grenada
1949–1989
Hungary
1975–
Laos
1924–
Mongolia
1975–1990
Mozambique
1948–2009
North Korea
1945–1976
North Vietnam
Years
Country
1944–1989
Poland
1970–1991
Rep. of the Congo
1947–1989
Romania
1969–1991
Somalia
1967–1990
South Yemen
1922–1991
Soviet Union
1976–
Vietnam
1945–1991
Yugoslavia
Quizmaster
+20
Level ∞
Nov 17, 2016
Note: North Korea dropped references to Marxism from its constitution in 2009.
jmellor13
+8
Level 67
Mar 1, 2017
I was just going to ask about that...
ferdy86
+7
Level 75
Mar 2, 2017
Semantics, haha.
kalbahamut
+22
Level 83
Aug 20, 2018
None of these countries were every truly Communist. It was always about semantics. Since Communism is impossible anyway, it's only ever going to be an excuse to transfer power, property and privilege from one group of greedy, corrupt, self-serving elites to another group of greedy, corrupt, self-serving elites by a different name and espousing a different flavor of BS. They mostly use Communism as an excuse for oppressive autocracy; but many of these countries that abandoned "Communism" are still corrupt and autocratic.
tshalla
+1
Level 74
Oct 11, 2019
True. I'd add that many of these states were led by groups with at least some affinity to communism (defined in numerous ways that were not about autocracy) at early points - often extinguished even before reaching power.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Aug 16, 2021
More technicalities: Technically the Soviet Union was never communist. It was "socialist", which was originally envisioned as a stepping stone on the way to true communism. Marxists had a whole theory of history in which humans progressed from feudalism -> bourgeois liberal capitalism -> socialism -> communism. Virtually all of their predictions proved to be complete garbage.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Aug 27, 2021
^ which is itself a complete betrayal of Marxist theories and predictions that foresaw a proletariat revolution after the condition of the workers grows so dire and the size of the working class so huge that revolution is inevitable. There are no half-way stepping stones in that process... if you believed in Marxism that would only be holding back the revolution not doing anything to get us closer to it.
tshalla
+1
Level 74
Aug 27, 2021
Well, that was the type of Marxism discredited in/by the Second International (i.e. more than a hundred years ago). Marxism is a pretty rich and varied school of history/economics/politics. The teleological weaknesses of that strain more or less died with the failed revolution in Germany in 1919.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 83
Aug 31, 2021
I'm aware. But it's still the foundation of all of Marx's ideas. A man who died in 1883. So if some other people are still following his discredited ideas in 1919, knowing that they are not true, and trying to come up with some way to ignore that and still call themselves Marxists, that doesn't say a lot about them.
QuizApe
+1
Level 65
Aug 27, 2021
That doesn’t mean that it is not communist.
WhatsThatAbout
+1
Level 33
Apr 28, 2022
China also no longer references Marxism in its Constitution
wasserwand
+2
Level 75
Nov 17, 2016
Good Job! Very nice quiz
mf3
+12
Level 85
Nov 20, 2016
Nicaragua?
AlexanderTheLarge
+1
Level 61
Apr 28, 2021
I guess Chile doesn't count either.
AlexanderTheLarge
+1
Level 61
Apr 28, 2021
I guess Chile doesn't count either.
LiamSheehan
+1
Level 44
Oct 5, 2021
I guess Chile doesn't count either.
wormking
+1
Level 21
Mar 11, 2022
I guess Chile doesn't count either.
FredB
+1
Level 93
Nov 5, 2022
I guess Chile doesn't count either.
Tramp
+7
Level 74
Nov 25, 2016
I think it would be reasonable for North Vietnam to not automatically fill in after typing "Vietnam".

By the way, just an idea for anybody who fancies making a new quiz: the same thing, but using modern day borders would be pretty cool, so you'd have to type all of the countries that made up the USSR instead of just USSR.

TheOrca
+2
Level 49
Apr 27, 2022
But they were the same country.
OldSailor
+7
Level 89
Dec 4, 2016
It would be interesting to add a column listing the number of their own citizens that these worker's paradises had to kill to keep the ruling elite in power over the years.

After a while, an observer can see a pattern of revolution -> societal failure -> oppression (usually mass murder) -> collapse or serious reform to keep elite in power.

The only truly communist county would have only one person left after the dictator had to murder everyone else to keep them in line.

McLerristarr
+25
Level 61
Dec 6, 2016
No, a true communist country would be run for the benefit of the people. But unfortunately there are always power-hungry people willing to exploit others for their own gain.
CaptainHumanLogic
+6
Level 42
Dec 14, 2016
Agreed
PHG1960
+7
Level 68
Sep 13, 2017
Has there ever been a communist country that was really beneficial to its people? Cuba? The economy stinks. USSR? It's economy tanked and the rich live grandly while the poor suffer. China? Maybe a better example but much of the gains have been as a result of capitalist reforms. Vietnam? Socialism has had more success but democracy is still the least worst.
GeoDude
+13
Level 48
Jan 24, 2019
Most countries have communist and socialist elements. Most countries have capitalistic elements too. Democracy has nothing to do with economics, it's just the way decisions are made (and a true democracy would be very tedious if not impossible).
CaoMaru
+5
Level 49
Oct 11, 2019
^ Exactly. The key point is that all countries have elements of these three systems, some have larger parts of one than the other.
TinklePork
+7
Level 62
Nov 20, 2017
Really makes me wonder why people like Bernie Sanders want to install communism in USA. It makes me wonder if they honestly don't recognize that communism has never worked in the past, or if they simply have a more dark motive and want to destroy the West.
samiamco
+57
Level 69
Jan 27, 2018
Yes, that's EXACTLY what Bernie Sanders said. So glad we're not resorting to hyperbole or anything.
CaoMaru
+14
Level 49
May 24, 2018
You do know that communism is very different from socialism, right?
kalbahamut
+29
Level 83
Aug 20, 2018
And democratic socialism, which is the only thing that Bernie Sanders has ever championed and then not very strongly, isn't even the same as socialism, which isn't the same as communism, which isn't the same as the Stalinism/Maosim etc that these countries were actually practicing. But don't try to explain that to someone who thinks that Bernie is a Communist.
camus
+3
Level 77
Oct 11, 2019
Yeah, if Trump is literally Hitler then Sanders is literally Stalin.
nilagm
+5
Level 39
Apr 23, 2021
how do people unironically think bernie sanders is a communist? he's barely even a socialist if at all
kalbahamut
+4
Level 83
Jun 8, 2021
Because he is, I think, the only US Senator who calls himself a socialist without reservation and the Americans that believe this word is a pejorative, they have no clue what the difference is.
KaiWut
+1
Level 53
Jun 20, 2021
Socialism is more like more benefits for lower-income people like social programs and lower taxes while Communism is that everyone shall be paid equally/fairly, no private businesses.
Idrimi
+2
Level 57
Feb 3, 2022
Lol, he's a center-left social democrat at most, it's just that since the USA has no real leftist party, you think anything left of Reagan is communism.
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 88
Jul 5, 2018
Eskimos lived as communists for centuries.
qcumber
+6
Level 46
Oct 17, 2018
eh, i wouldn't say communist, but rather communal, like many tribes were(and are).
CaoMaru
+4
Level 49
Oct 11, 2019
And please don't use the word eskimo.
camus
+10
Level 77
Oct 11, 2019
It might be better to explain why eskimo shouldn't be used and what the preferred term is. Many people probably don't know that. To quote Wikipedia, 'Some people consider Eskimo derogatory because it is popularly perceived to mean "eaters of raw meat" in Algonquian languages common to people along the Atlantic coast.' and 'In Canada and Greenland, "Inuit" is preferred. Inuit is the Eastern Canadian Inuit (Inuktitut) and West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) word for "the people".'
CardinalSin
+1
Level 75
Nov 29, 2019
Anything wrong with eating raw meat? Carpaccio de boeuf. Delicious.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 77
Sep 17, 2020
I grew up with the name 'Eskimo' being the widely-used term for those people. When I read Sherlock Holmes it's spelt as 'Esquimau' (plural 'Esquimaux').
JackintheBox
+2
Level 77
Sep 17, 2020
@camus It's a common misconception that Eskimo means 'one who eats raw flesh'; the correct etymology is from Montagnais ayas̆kimew ‘person who laces a snowshoe’.
tshalla
+1
Level 74
Aug 27, 2021
camus's basic point is correct.
CaptainHumanLogic
+1
Level 42
Dec 14, 2016
20/26, not bad
CaptainHumanLogic
+1
Level 42
Aug 5, 2018
Tried it today, 24/26. Improvement!
SomeBroncho
+1
Level 32
Dec 19, 2016
Tuvan People's Republic?
Crabsarespooky
+1
Level 64
Apr 8, 2020
It was only recognized by the USSR and Mongolia, and nobody else, so it wasn't really a country.
azzyclark
+1
Level 68
Jan 22, 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states
CFeng
+3
Level 47
Aug 17, 2020
The key word here is communist, not socialist.
ScalabrineGOAT
+2
Level 51
Feb 21, 2017
Great quiz! Got 18/26
DavidShuer123
+3
Level 44
Mar 1, 2017
Could a version be made with a blank map of the world? Is there one for Nato/Warsaw pact nations?
kalbahamut
+5
Level 83
Mar 1, 2017
oh man... how'd I forget Ethiopia. I even went to the museum in Addis Ababa about the Derg.
Crabsarespooky
+2
Level 64
Apr 8, 2020
You've been basically everywhere! I see so many of your comments in quizzes about you've been to a bunch of different countries, I would love to be able to do that!
kalbahamut
+6
Level 83
May 11, 2020
The world is worth exploring and doing so doesn't have to be as difficult or expensive as most people think. Stop making excuses and do it. :)
kalbahamut
+7
Level 83
Aug 7, 2020
I saved a lot of money working in Saudi Arabia. I was sort of a professor there. Taught English at a technical university in Dammam. Made a good salary.

But... I bought my Viper back when I was a full-time college student moonlighting in a hospital ER. It's just about priorities, setting goals for yourself, learning how to budget really... I rarely spend money on anything unless it's really something I want or need.

And, further, while I was still traveling all over Earth I met many people who were doing the same for much less than I was. I met a guy at a hostel in Tel Aviv who started with $1000 in the bank and traveled on that for six years. I hosted a young couple from Colombia in my apartment in Rome who had nothing. There are ways. Especially if you are American or Canadian your passport affords you a lot of privilege. Google "shoestring travel," "CouchSurfing," "rideshare," "food saving," "work away," "hostelworld," to get started...

kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
Aug 7, 2020
It also helps that I never got married, had kids, or bought a big house I couldn't really afford. That's what siphons away the majority of most Americans' money.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Feb 26, 2021
I think there was a comment here asking how I afforded a Dodge Viper and traveling the world for years without spending a ton of money. ... I was responding to them but the comment has since gone missing. Will leave up the response in case anyone else was wondering. I wish QM would stop wiping comments from users that had been purged due to inactivity and simply make their accounts inactive.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
Feb 26, 2021
After 8 years of commenting here and several rounds of user purges there are one-sided conversations up all over the site that make it look like I'm talking to myself...
Pufferfish643
+2
Level 38
Aug 9, 2022
Oh that makes more sense I was wondering why you were talking to yourself lol
3NRD
+1
Level 41
Nov 17, 2022
yea lol : )

( btw these internet codes can mean what i wnt ? yea )

Elan
+4
Level 65
Mar 1, 2017
When you get Grenada but miss Romania...
texdave
+1
Level 55
Mar 1, 2017
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were Soviet vassal states during the Cold War.
lapio
+8
Level 46
Mar 2, 2017
Bro, they were part of the Soviet Union - not vassals or satellites like Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
fascm
+2
Level 17
Aug 28, 2019
They changed governments right before the invasion of their countries, they should be included
ChessPiece99
+2
Level 39
Mar 9, 2017
What's South Yemen?
kalbahamut
+23
Level 83
Mar 10, 2017
If I had to guess, I'd say it's the southern part of Yemen.

I don't have to guess... both because I already know and I have this thing called the Internet.

TheOrca
+3
Level 49
Apr 27, 2022
Weirdly, south Yemen was the eastern part of Yemen.
jbro
+2
Level 60
Jun 10, 2022
@deccy, the eastern part of Yemen is south of the western part of Yemen. Hence the name.
geographyman19
+5
Level 30
Sep 13, 2017
South Yemen was a Marxist-Leninist one party state on the Arabian peninsula from 1967-1991.
Stevie
+6
Level 42
Nov 19, 2019
The bit under North Yemen.
fjakob
+3
Level 51
May 19, 2020
there was north yemen and south yemen that merged to make yemen
Antofagasta
+2
Level 63
Mar 16, 2017
Quite a few surprising ones on here. Never thought this would include Grenada.
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Oct 12, 2018
Grenada should not be included because it was Socialist, not Communist (and several earlier commenters have explained the difference quite well)..
OlivanderCharles
+3
Level 30
Apr 5, 2017
Yugoslavia was socialist, not communist. they were non-alligned during the cold war
CaoMaru
+5
Level 49
Oct 11, 2019
Just because they were non-aligned doesn't mean they weren't communist.
Syjared63
+2
Level 13
Apr 9, 2017
North Korea is still communist
trnka
+2
Level 63
Apr 28, 2017
I tried Zaire first, because that's what the country was called during the communist days. Maybe it could be added as a type-in?
Gamer1162
+5
Level 60
Jun 26, 2017
You're thinking of the DRC, the communist country was the Republic of the Congo
QuertyX
+1
Level 33
Apr 28, 2017
Zaire?

Nicaragua?

Republican Spain?

Tannu Tuva?

Yaramygd
+4
Level 41
Jan 17, 2018
Zaire is the DRC, the communist one is the Republic of Congo

Nicaragua is not considered communist (yet)

Republican Spain was democratic

QuertyX
+1
Level 33
Jun 25, 2018
Yeah, I didnt see Congo in the list even tho I typed it.
yorksguy1865
+1
Level 36
Jun 13, 2017
Wow that was harder than I thought it would be, interesting though!
footygenius
+1
Level 68
Aug 16, 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic

might be fun adding Bavaria, as it a communist style government was introduced between 1918-1919

NapoleonBonaparte
+1
Level 65
Sep 13, 2017
I don't think China is truly communist.
QRU
+5
Level 74
Sep 13, 2017
None of those countries are "truly" communist, i.e for the fact, that they are countries.
kalbahamut
+5
Level 83
Sep 22, 2017
There will never be a truly Communist nation as the ideas of Karl Marx have been proven wrong and the proletariat revolution he envisioned will never happen.
Scotty1
+2
Level 31
Sep 28, 2017
Accept Germany for East Germany
divantilya
+3
Level 37
Oct 12, 2018
All of Germany was not Communist, only the Eastern part (or the German Democratic Republic)
AayushD
+1
Level 70
Sep 30, 2017
What about Madagascar?
walmartdrivethru
+1
Level 25
Apr 15, 2019
Madagascar isn't communist!

I mean...

I'm pretty sure it's not....

CFeng
+4
Level 47
Aug 17, 2020
It was communist.
Thanasi
+1
Level 33
Oct 13, 2017
What about Russia?
stylus
+7
Level 73
Feb 14, 2019
USSR
Marcsan
+1
Level 63
Oct 21, 2017
It is missing North Korea.
kalbahamut
+16
Level 83
Nov 24, 2017
What about the United States 2009-2017?
divantilya
+21
Level 37
Jan 24, 2018
Oh, please!
jakeriley23
+5
Level 21
May 13, 2018
Nice one kalbahamut
PatoPotato
+3
Level 49
Sep 2, 2019
I truly hope you're joking
jbro
+2
Level 60
Jun 10, 2022
kalbahamut, more like the United States 2017-2021, am I right.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Nov 1, 2022
yeah I guess they go back and forth between being an oppressive Communist hellscape to a glorious capitalist utopia and beacon of freedom every 4-12 years or so. Strange how that works. And it always seems to change immediately around the 3rd week of January for some reason.
Ekaj
+6
Level 15
Dec 7, 2017
North Korea is actually Juche which rules by divine mandate and against the principles of communism, it is not true communism and therefore should be removed. It is more similar to Imperial Japan as the Kim dynasty are depicted as gods and has a cult following, pretty sure religion is not promoted in such a society and is hypocritical to many aspects of real communism, where Atheism and Non-religious institutions are favoured instead of.
DarthCaedus66
+1
Level 12
Jan 2, 2018
@Thanasi, Russia isn't a Communist country, The Soviet Union (which took up a large part of Russia) was.(yes I know my Soviet history.Hunt for Red October 4 life)
JackintheBox
+2
Level 77
Sep 17, 2020
It's the other way round – Russia took up a large part of the Soviet Union. And The Hunt for Red October is only loosely based on true events.
jesuscpenney
+8
Level 28
Jan 15, 2018
What about Burkina Faso 1984-1987?
Conservatopia
+1
Level 31
Mar 13, 2018
Please accept the typo 'Czechslovakia' for Czechoslovakia.
Etanna
+6
Level 69
Aug 20, 2018
Slovakia didn't belong to us :D we were two countries united into a federation. The "o" in between connects two words; for instance "black and white"/"black white" is "blackowhite" (černobílá) in Czech
Sifhraven
+2
Level 66
Feb 8, 2020
Reminded me of Chernobyl, which apparently means black grass (=mugwort )
PacoGee
+1
Level 44
Mar 16, 2018
Ukraine was part of the USSR why isn't it included? Im not reading a million comments either..
Quizmaster
+35
Level ∞
Mar 16, 2018
If you can't bother to read anyone's comments why should they bother to read yours?
kalbahamut
+15
Level 83
Aug 20, 2018
Also, your estimate of the number of comments here is off by 999,927
Karl12thSweden
+1
Level 61
Jan 9, 2020
when a your level proves you're a madlad XD
ooftownroad
+2
Level 56
Apr 9, 2020
#rekt
CaoMaru
+7
Level 49
Jul 20, 2018
It's not included because it was PART OF the USSR
Sifhraven
+4
Level 66
Feb 8, 2020
So, basicly, it is included
jpcol
+1
Level 58
Mar 26, 2018
I’d say there’s a case for Nicaragua, Rep Spain and Venezuela making this list.
ReyFer
+6
Level 65
Mar 27, 2018
republican spain was never communist, the communist party dind't even win the elections in 1936 (they were a lot of left-wing parties toguether)

Anyway, it asks for a single marxist party

Etanna
+1
Level 69
Aug 20, 2018
I agree, we learned about Venezuela being a communist (socialist) country. However, I don't know how much Marxist propaganda they use (if any) and if it's of any importance to this quiz
Elan
+3
Level 65
Apr 13, 2018
Here's hoping this quiz never has to be updated!
shinboy
+2
Level 68
May 31, 2018
Wasn't Madagascar communist as well?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar

QuertyX
+1
Level 33
Jun 25, 2018
I thought that Paraguay and Nicaragua were communist
divantilya
+2
Level 37
Oct 12, 2018
Nicaragua, yes. Paraguay, no.
DorkmeisterBlu
+1
Level 71
Aug 20, 2018
Shouldn't South Yemen be in red?
BotswanaEmperor
+1
Level 63
Jun 2, 2020
No, because South Yemen was never part of the Warsaw Pact.
gargoyle
+2
Level 28
Oct 12, 2018
Khiva, which was never part of imperial Russia, had its own revolution and became the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic in 1920. It was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1924. Therefore I think it should be included as a communist country that existed 1920-1924.
Dimby
+1
Level 74
Apr 14, 2021
Looks like Khwarazm was a Russian protectorate by 1920 and it was very strongly encouraged to have a communist revolution. It probably wouldn't meet the criteria for an independent country.
Aaron197
+2
Level 70
Nov 8, 2018
Wasn's Zanzibar communist?
lazydaisee
+3
Level 45
Feb 10, 2019
I see an awful lot of countries that used the word 'Communist' as an excuse to crush their opposition but when it can time they weren't really communist...just totalitarian Govts that took from many and gave to a few. The so called 'communists' of countries like North Korea, China, Russia, Cuba all managed to live in palaces whilst other starves.

I don't think any country ever achieved true communism and am not sure it could ever be done as power will inevitably end up in the hands of a few who will inevitably exploit that.

omnikin
+1
Level 58
Feb 15, 2019
I think North Korea still communist
KanzazKyote
+1
Level 82
May 28, 2019
Where is Nicaragua? It's a de facto single party Marxist state. Same for Venezuela.
CatcoolH
+1
Level 61
Jul 6, 2019
Grenada was communist for 4 years?! XD
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Aug 6, 2019
^ It was not. It was Socialist. What led to Maurice Bishop's assassination in 1983 was that his deputy, Bernard Coard, wanted to embrace hard-core communism, ala Cuba, and Bishop did not.
TWM03
+1
Level 67
Oct 11, 2019
It was a single-party Marxist state, which is the definition this quiz is using for Communism.
brii
+2
Level 25
Aug 26, 2019
not joking,... i forgot NORTH KOREA
gzx5
+2
Level 70
Oct 11, 2019
Why did almost all of them abandon communism between 1989 and 1992?
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
Oct 11, 2019
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, which was presaged by the many Soviet-friendly regimes in Eastern Europe and around the world falling out of favor and losing power starting in the late 80s.
gzx5
+1
Level 70
Oct 13, 2019
I think I know why they fell out of favour prior to their collapse, with them in Europe and Afghanistan but why did the others in Asia and Africa?
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Oct 14, 2019
Many of those regimes were supported by the USSR. When the USSR began to fail, that support got cut off, and eventually the motivation for them to identify as Communist went away, even when they stayed in place enforcing roughly the same policies. In other cases, the Communist regimes in these places were murderous and oppressive and after a few years or few decades of this locals rose up against them.
gzx5
+1
Level 70
Oct 15, 2019
Out of curiosity, which nations had murderous and oppressive communist governments which fell because of locals rising up against them?
kalbahamut
+2
Level 83
Oct 15, 2019
To various degrees... Ethiopia, Romania, Poland, etc. Ethiopia maybe being the most clear example as the Derg were eventually ousted by the Ethiopian Civil War. Some of these regimes were not quite as bad and some of the uprisings against them took the form of social protest or peaceful political movements in opposition.
Edmontonian
+4
Level 60
Oct 12, 2019
Ethiopia was ruled by the Communist Derg from 1974-87 as well, it should be for 74-91
NauruPalau
+10
Level 50
Jan 7, 2020
Burkina Faso under sankara?
TMK613
+8
Level 55
Feb 11, 2020
Burkina Faso?
lukefan
+6
Level 65
Apr 23, 2020
Workers of the world, unite!
Night1224
+2
Level 32
May 3, 2022
You have nothing to lose but your chains!
NeilV
+5
Level 51
May 6, 2020
Togo, Gabon, Guinea, Ghana, Myanmar, Eritrea, and Tanzania were Communist too.
cosenza
+2
Level 61
May 19, 2020
Wasn't Tannu Tuva as well?
s282
+3
Level 54
Jun 19, 2020
Cyprus had a communist president from 2008-2013, although they weren't a one-party state
canadry
+5
Level 67
Jun 19, 2020
Nice — a list of the coolest countries ever! :)
kalbahamut
+8
Level 83
Sep 28, 2020
I came here expecting to find just such a comment from you, after noting you calling for the disbanding of NATO and calling every US president a war criminal, and you didn't let me down. Are you on the Kremlin payroll or what? Maybe working part time out of a pro-Putin Russian troll farm in Romania?
kalbahamut
+7
Level 83
Sep 28, 2020
Anyway yeah you're right.. Pol Pot's Cambodia and Ethiopia's Derg were super cool. Real hep cats. And of course nobody knows how to party like the North Koreans.
filiphoset
+1
Level 58
Nov 16, 2020
Nepal?
Abstrakt110
+1
Level 36
Nov 28, 2020
wheres cuba, cuba is a communist country
kalbahamut
+3
Level 83
Oct 7, 2021
90 miles south of Miami?
queenfanfran
+3
Level 40
Mar 16, 2021
you ought to incude sankara's burkina faso... or just delete the quiz because the title is oxymoronic ;)
Saftra
+1
Level 53
Mar 23, 2021
Haiti?
TMK613
+1
Level 55
Apr 17, 2021
Madagascar?
nilagm
+1
Level 39
Apr 23, 2021
communist 'countries' lmao
43Cubes
+2
Level 31
May 11, 2021
This is OUR quiz.
jmellor13
+3
Level 67
Aug 27, 2021
Quizzers of the world unite.
WelshWizard
+11
Level 80
Aug 27, 2021
Urm, not sure you can say Mongolia is still communist. The Mongolian People's Party pivoted to social democracy after the 1990 revolution.
WelshWizard
+4
Level 80
Aug 27, 2021
It's certainly not a single-party state now. They've lost multiple elections in the last 30 years.
JWatson24
+2
Level 71
Aug 27, 2021
Is there a reason Cambodia wasn't a communist country from 1975 to 1979 under Pol Pot? The Wikipedia description says "Kampuchea... was the Cambodian state under a one-party Marxist-Leninist totalitarian dictatorship that existed between 1975 and 1979." That sounds like it fits the quiz description to me.
CambodianQuizzer
+1
Level 60
Aug 27, 2021
As a Cambodian, Pol Pot was our Joseph Stalin.
Usukhuu
+13
Level 29
Aug 27, 2021
People's Republic of Mongolia ended in 1992 tho
SirPhilippines
+2
Level 60
Aug 27, 2021
Was just about to say that! Probably a typo
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 64
Aug 29, 2021
What about Greece? It had a civil war after WWII which puts it in a similar position as Yemen.
Dadosh
+9
Level 59
Aug 29, 2021
Mongolia stopped being communist in 1990
BlackLab
+1
Level 62
Dec 6, 2021
kicking myself for not remembering South Yemen.
Darragh4482
+1
Level 28
Dec 12, 2021
you forgot south america
GeoBags
+1
Level 48
Dec 15, 2021
Wasńt Hungary communist for a good year after the first world war
Myloufa
+7
Level 66
Dec 24, 2021
Mongolia isn't communist since 1992.
Valism
+1
Level 48
Dec 29, 2021
bruh,dprk is still communist
Enderboi
+2
Level 33
Mar 27, 2022
No, it's not. The North Koreans removed references to communism in their constitution in 2009.
Valism
+3
Level 48
Dec 29, 2021
Mongolia is a Democracy NOT Communist,it was only communist in the 20's 30's and 40's as well as under Soviet rule.
Koopa
+5
Level 73
Dec 30, 2021
What's your source for Mongolia being communist?
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 54
Jan 27, 2022
north korea aint communist, it seems like it, but they are technically an unfair democracy. They have votes, but kim just always wins, and some are rigged. Also in that country sharing and equality is extinct there.
JJ1KING
+2
Level 44
Feb 3, 2022
Missing Burkina Faso
secondarystomach
+1
Level 32
Apr 12, 2022
Mongolia is currently communist?
KevinTheCat
+2
Level 65
Jul 15, 2022
no. none of these countries are/were actually communist, hell even in the title it clarifies that these are "single-party marxist states". Mongolia is not a one-party state so I don't know why it's not listed as ending in 1990.
MalyJacus
+1
Level 53
May 6, 2022
Ha, this is a trick question. None of these countries have ever been communist. In strict sense, there has never been a communist state, ever and likely never will be.
CDMX
+1
Level 55
May 9, 2022
I cant seriously have remembered countries like Grenada and Benin and forgotten Afghanistan and Yugoslavia.
MarcoReusfantv
+1
Level 28
Jun 9, 2022
Mongolia is still Communist?
KevinTheCat
+3
Level 65
Jul 15, 2022
It has multiple parties, which breaks the criteria so idk why it's listed as not having ended in 1990.
Masonplays
+1
Level 26
Jun 26, 2022
I forgot Angola bruh and that’s not the worst I forgot the Ussr ;-;
Oic
+2
Level 19
Aug 20, 2022
Why isnt there san marino

San marino was a communist country

Owen28Baje
+1
Level 36
Oct 15, 2022
So, ww3 when?
Aves4
+3
Level 50
Nov 1, 2022
Mongolia ceased to be communist country in 1990. Might want to fix that on the quiz. Ethiopia was also ruled by a communist military regime (the Derg) from 1974 until 1987, so the correct dates for Ethiopia would technically be 1974-1991.
QuizApe
+1
Level 65
Nov 13, 2022
So Mongolia is still communist and North Korea isn’t? Really?
Swissnuetral
+1
Level 16
Nov 15, 2022
You forgot san marino
APotatoSquasher
+1
Level 23
Nov 21, 2022
A little surprised North Korea isn't a communist country anymore.
KevinTheCat
+1
Level 65
May 19, 2023
All they did was remove refernces to it from their constitution. In the end, nothing has really changed.
baeckford
+1
Level 70
Nov 29, 2022
San Marino had a democratically-elected communist government from 1945 to 1957 until they were voted out
KevinTheCat
+1
Level 65
May 19, 2023
The countries here have to be single party. San Marino (and Nepal for that matter) are/were democratic, so wouldn't be on this list.
peterpancake
+2
Level 31
Dec 6, 2022
Mongolia is no longer socialist
LucasRRB
+2
Level 26
Dec 7, 2022
mongolia hasent been communist for like 30 years
Gamerboyscored
+2
Level 29
Dec 9, 2022
You should add Kampuchea and Tuva.
Patrick01
+1
Level 32
Jan 10, 2023
I named Benin but forgot Soviet Union until the end of the quiz
BushYT
+1
Level 29
Jan 20, 2023
San Marino was once communist actually in 1978 and from 1945-1957
KevinTheCat
+1
Level 65
May 19, 2023
It wasn't (and still isn't) a single-party state. Same with Nepal. both are democratic and wouldn't fit the criteria for this list.
KevinTheCat
+1
Level 65
May 19, 2023
I think Seychelles should count because of the 79 constitution which declared it a single party socialist state under Rene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles
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