Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year
by ImJamal on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:07AM
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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
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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.