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Are you suggesting that Russia is not USSR's legal successor. Maybe we are living in different realities since Russia still exists.
by sumedh 2y ago
Are 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.