100: USSR

100 years ago today (December 30, 1922) The Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Декларация и договор об образовании Союза Советских Социалистических Республик and Ukrainian: Договір про утворення  Союз Радянських Соціалістичних Республік) created the Soviet Union and forced 15 Countries to become Soviet Republics for the next 69 years – The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was created after the 1917 Communist October Revolution and formed the USSR in 1922.

The USSR collapsed on December 26, 1991 (31 years ago) and ever since then Putin, who called the collapse of the Soviet Union the ““was the greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century” has tried to bring it back by sending Russian Troops to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine.

Only Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (all are part of the European Union, NATO and the Eurozone) and Turkmenistan have no Russian Troops.  

A 2020 Poll found that 75% of Russians (including those born after the USSR Collapse) said the Soviet Era was the “Greatest Time in Russia’s History.”

Putin has failed to bring back the Soviet Union or to make Russia a Super Power once again. In fact, he has done just the opposite. He has shown the world that the Russian Government, the Russian Military, the Russian Economy and Russian Industry are more 3^rd World than ever before. Ukrainian Farmers have been able to destroy “Modern” Russian Military Equipment and 102,050 Russian Soldiers have died in 10 months in Ukraine than in 10 years of the Soviet-Afghan War.