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Walter Model said:
Why the heck would a democratic country have any communists? Communism was created after the Russian Revolution, or should I say Marxist Leninism

I think you have things the wrong way round. The Commune was a deomcratic uprising against the Thrid Empire. The communists took their name from that (to suggest that they too were fighting against opression).
 

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Emp_Palpatine said:
Against the Second Empire ;) firstly.
Secondly, the Second Empire was already dead by the time of the Commune. They revolted against the national-defense government and the results of the elections that did not suited what they wanted (Royalist landslide victory) and the fact that the government did not trust Paris (he was right) and wanted to take the guns of the city.
And during the commune, it was very far from democracy...

That's what I get from trying to work from memory. :)