I don’t know, I believe the USSR ended years ago. Otherwise Ukraine would still be part of it.
As for believing in free and fair elections run by anybody?Pah, not so much.
>> I don’t know, I believe the USSR ended years ago. Otherwise Ukraine would still be part of it. <<
Ding Ding Ding! You win the prize! You correctly understood the difference between “Russian” and “Soviet Union”! Now, if Russia militarily takes back Ukraine, that makes it.... SOVIET!
Seriously, Yeltsin and Medvedev may have had their flaws. (In Yeltsin’s case, WOW were they huge), but they weren’t Soviets. But Putin’s speeches have always shown that he knows nothing of the world except for what the Soviet Propagandists taught him. The serf-brain really seems to believe the NY Times-Stalin propaganda about Holomodor!