• carl_marks[use name]@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    CCP

    Just an fyi they refer to themselves as CPC. Only western libs say CCP to make the association with CCCP. Also there’s a semantic difference.

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      5 months ago

      The CCCP? Yeah, English speakers don’t usually refer to it by that acronym. It’s almost universally referred to as the USSR. I’m reasonably well informed on history and I had to look it up.

      This article goes over a history. The difference is so inconsequential in practice that the Party itself can’t keep itself straight 100% of the time, with one cited 2016 official translation of a Xi Jinping speech including over 100 references to the “C.C.P.”