The Nuclear Fist wrote:Zukariaa wrote:This is going further and further off the original topic to the point that I don't even know what its about, but the fact that a country is just a cushion for the bigger one only makes it less important. Russia can stand on its own whereas every one of the former SSRs are totally irrelevant.
Correct. The modern ex-Soviet republic stand on their own feet. The USSR could not. Without the other SSRs, the Russian SFSR crumbled. And thus with all the SSRs leaving, the USSR crumbled.
That's kind of not the point. If Russia just called itself the USSR it wouldn't make any difference. All of the power came from Russia.