I've always liked the idea of warp drive, di-lithium crystals that give us unlimited energy and replicators that give us everything we want.
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This Newsweek was taking Putin out of context. Putin said he admired the ideals of socialism and communism nut in reality they are not workable. That is an important distinction.
Here is a more fuller reporting from the Washington Post:
"Putin said he sincerely believed in Communist ideology when he served in the KGB, adding that while promises of a fair and just society in the Communist ideology resembled the Bible quite a lot but the reality was different. Our country did not look like the City of the Sun, envisaged by socialist utopians, he said."
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