[Trumpinator]

You are mistaken - my point was that the USSR was not an ethnic Russian empire over non Russians. It was an empire based around a communist part that was anti-ethnic identity.

Georgia and Ukraine for example were at their longest periods of peace and prosperity under the Czars.

It is indicative of the circles you are doing to call Stalin a Georgian national - a Russian. And it is ironic you mentioned Georgia's borders were messed up by the commies which caused this problem after the USSR broke up but seem to deny this is a problem in the Ukraine as well.

[higgmeister]

...USSR was not an ethnic Russian empire over non Russians.

That's funny. One of the predictors that foresaw the fall of the Soviet Union was the ethnic unrest caused by Russian domination.