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Are you suggesting that USSR is invading Ukraine? Maybe we are living in different realities since we the USSR no longer exist.
by ImJamal 2y ago
Are you suggesting that USSR is invading Ukraine? Maybe we are living in different realities since we the USSR no longer exist.
- pvaldes 2y agoIn some aspects we could say that, given the high number of USSR tanks, ships and weapons that are being destroyed by the Ukrainian army just right now. USSR was a necessary collaborator in this invasion.
- ImJamal 2y agoThe USSR is gone. It can't collaborate with anything. Did your great-great-great-great-great grandparents who died before the internet collbarate with you to write this post?
- sumedh 2y agoAre you suggesting that Russia is not USSR's legal successor. Maybe we are living in different realities since Russia still exists.
- ImJamal 2y agoRussia was a state of the USSR, not the USSR itself. That is like saying the Roman Empire exists today because Italy is the successor.
- racional 2y agoDon't make such far-flung analogies. The Russia/USSR transition is more akin to that of the Roman Republic to the Principate/Dominate. Or the different stages of other closely related empires throughout history after dealing with internal regime, partial reversals and so forth. Even Putin sees Russia/USSR as parts of a organic historic continuum, and this is a key component of his rhetoric. That the USSR's territorial losses are Russia's losses and must be reversed if Russia it to "save face" and so on.