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They never do claim it in their titles, the USSR has republic in the  title
and I don't think they can claim not to be communist. 
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 11/6/2008 10:41:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
indexer AT localnet.com writes:

Actually, now that I look closely at that list....it doesn't  gel...

Lithuania and Ukraine are both republics, that I remember  because we had 
several exchangees from each country both before and after  the fall of 
the Soviet Union
The Russian Federation at least claims to  have a representative 
democracy, IIRC
Finland is the Republic of  Finland
France's official name is Republic of France and and it always  seems to 
me that they have a sort of hybrid jumble for government.   the CIA 
Factbook says France has a republic government.
As to Denmark,  I had to look it up.  From their official website:  
"Denmark has  a long history of democratic rule and is today high on the 
list of  countries in the world where democracy is most successful."  
Garrison  Keillor didn't stick it out there long. :-)

So while some of them have  some socialist programs and some have 
communist-rule history, they ain't  claimin' the titles.

SJ, in  Maine

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