• infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    11 months ago

    I have an idea of what a state is, but what's a "soviet"? That's not an English word.

    What does "soviet" mean in Russian?

    • anachronist@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      I know you're being cute but "soviet" is indeed a word in English: http://dict.org/bin/Dict

      
        Soviet
            adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet
                   Union or its people; "Soviet leaders"
            n 1: an elected governmental council in a communist country
                 (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet
                 Socialist Republics)
      

      And it means what I intended it to mean, the official state ideology of the USSR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        11 months ago

        That sounds bland, I like the idea of council communism better.

        How do you say "council communism" in Russian?