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> Russia is a country with fluid borders Weird how that fluid always seems to spill outward, and never inward, innit?
by kibwen 2y ago
> Russia is a country with fluid borders
Weird how that fluid always seems to spill outward, and never inward, innit?
- hollerith 2y agoThe borders underwent a large inward contraction in 1991.
- kibwen 2y agoThis is still conflating the USSR and Russia. The Russian SFSR, AFAICT, had exactly the same borders as Russia did before it started biting off pieces of its neighbors.
- hollerith 2y agoWell, sure, with enough motivated cognition, it is possible to fit the facts to your preferred narrative.
- Dylan16807 2y agoIn that case the borders never moved and you can't say they only spill outward.
- reisse 2y agoNo, you're wrong here. Russian SFSR initally included the whole Central Asia, Caucasus countries, Crimea and eastern parts of Ukrainian SSR. Russian SFSR border you talking about is from circa 1956.