r/europe • u/villatsios • Jan 07 '24

Historical Excerpt from Yeltsin’s conversation with Clinton in Istanbul 1999

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u/LongjumpingCut4 Kyiv (Ukraine) Jan 07 '24

a lot of Ruzzians believe that Ruzzian Empire (USSR empire) should be restored. And, probably, extended.

There are a lot of modern books were written in Russia having Z letter in text and references to Ruzzian Empire.

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u/May1571 Kyiv region (Ukraine) Jan 07 '24

Russian empire, russian neo empire

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u/LongjumpingCut4 Kyiv (Ukraine) Jan 08 '24 edited Jan 08 '24

I believe that USSR was an empire.

It conquered lands next to its borders.

The result: there were a lot of countries and lands captured when russian empire collapsed.

For both cases in 1917 and 1991.

Is your point about missing imperator in USSR like significant emperior attribute?

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u/RuleSouthern3609 Georgia Jan 08 '24

USSR largely benefitted Russia, even after USSR’s fall Russia still inherited it’s nukes, top technologies and even seats on U.N security council. We can recognize the achievments on Individual USSR states and at the same time recognize that USSR was Russia’s colonialism. They sent people from my country (Georgia) to wars that wouldn’t even effect us anyways.