carlos55 wrote:
Most Russians don’t want the USSR back simply because they see many of those former republics as freeloaders sucking the wealth out of Russia
That's pretty funny because many of the former republics see themselves as having been exploited by RSFSR - and some simply call their USSR time "occupation".
So, it looks like dissolution of USSR was a win-win.
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