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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by ImJamal on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:29PM (#41029732)
Are you suggesting that USSR is invading Ukraine? Maybe we are living in different realities since we the USSR no longer exist.
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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by sumedh on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:56PM (#41029906)
Are you suggesting that Russia is not USSR's legal successor. Maybe we are living in different realities since Russia still exists.
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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by ImJamal on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:07AM (#41044740)
Russia was a state of the USSR, not the USSR itself. That is like saying the Roman Empire exists today because Italy is the successor.
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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by racional on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @11:28AM (#41046999)
Don't make such far-flung analogies.

The Russia/USSR transition is more like 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.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by pvaldes on Monday July 22, 2024 @06:56PM (#41040694)
In some aspects we could say that, given the high number of USSR tanks, ships and weapons that are being destroyed by the Ukrainian army just right now.

USSR was a necessary collaborator in this invasion.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by ImJamal on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:08AM (#41044749)
The USSR is gone. It can't collaborate with anything. Did your great-great-great-great-great grandparents who died before the internet collbarate with you to write this post?
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