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n. - Changing something from private to state ownership or control; A change from private property to public property owned by all the people.

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  • Is what's happening here a successful start to "communisation"?
  • March 14th, 2008 at 7: 22 am communisation trackback url says:
  • I'm against forced Islamisation as much as I'm against forced Christianisation, communisation, capitalisation or any other form of coercion.
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski was the ONLY person of prominence in the 1980s who predicted the de-communisation and breakup of the Soviet Union, which occurred in the early 1990s.
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