The USSR was founded in 1917, with the Bolshevik Revolution!!!!
The Bolsheviks murdered millions of Russians, and millions of people of other nationalities in the former Russian Empire. But mainly Russians!!!! And they destroyed their Russian Orthodox churches, and imprisoned millions of Orthodox priests and faithful.
So what we called “Russia”—even before the takeover of Eastern (or Central) European countries after 1945—was barely Russia at all!!
Now there IS a Russia—with a strong Russian Orthodox Church!! I hope that America can come to get along with Russia (Trump’s original plan) very soon!!!!
I am corrected and am completely chagrined at my error.
Thank you for the correction.