exactly mc grath, it was not a communist state.
there were many terrible things about the soviet union,ALTHOUGH THE WORST PERIOD WAS UNDER STALIN, there were some good things too, there are now some terrible things about Russia.
its just the bad and good things are different, Whilst the soviet union existed many problems were suppressed now, a pandoras box has been opened.just for the record the soviet union was not the only place where people disappeared it happened?happens in china, chile, zimbabwe and even some other capitalist states like nazi germany, to mention a few.
russia is now governed by gangsters.