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The Russian Empire didn't exist in the 1960s, so I really don't see any credibility in your comment.
by digging 3y ago
The Russian Empire didn't exist in the 1960s, so I really don't see any credibility in your comment.
- FredPret 3y agoIf you call the US and it’s global influence an empire, then in the 60’s Russia also had an empire. A far more direct one, in fact, as they were occupying Eastern European countries like Ukraine, Estonia, and so many others.
- digging 3y agoI do call the US "an empire", but I don't refer to "The American Empire" in a discussion of geopolitics. It reeks of bias. The GP wrote "Russian Empire", capitalized, which is the name of a polity that didn't exist in the late 20th century. (And then they later edited their comment to say "(aka the USSR)" to make me look overly pedantic.)
- FredPret 3y agoBut you are being overly pedantic. “USSR” is simply the name Russia gave to its empire.