The USSR was a multi-ethnic empire, Stalin was a Georgian, Krushchev and Brezhnev were Ukrainians. Most of the Old Bolsheviks, except Lenin, were Jews.
But even if we accept the toponym "Soviet citizen = Russian", the phenomenon of America being dragged into wars for the benefit of alien peoples based on what Americans think they know about what those alien peoples "really want" is seriously past its "sell by" date.
This has led us to disaster after disaster, with no recompense for our sacrifices, and we are hearing it even today about what Iranians "really want".
You, I and everyone else here who is a US citizen without attachments to foreign countries have no idea what foreigners "really want". It's none of our business, and I for one don't really care if Pashtuns want schools for girls, if Vietnamese Buddhists want a representative democracy, or if Iraqis want to vote.
I don't care what those people want. I care what my people want. And I'm pretty distressed that my people aren't getting what they want or need while we bleed or offer to defending foreigner's borders.
Enough is enough.
Never again.