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          it’s not like modern Russia particularly objects to the idea

          Here is correction for you: it’s not like Putin objects to the image of empire.

          But he don’t want everything else that came with USSR like good schools, good hospitals, good wages for teachers and doctors, housing for everyone. Because money spent on anything above is money not spent on his yacht.

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          It very much does.

          I think people tend to confuse Russian irredentism with wanting to bring back communism when all they really want is the USSR’s borders. Which were, mind you, largely the Russian Empire’s borders.

          If the Russian oligarchy is going to force a return to their roots I feel like they’d just bring back the monarchy.

          There certainly is a socialist movement in Russia that wouldn’t mind returning to a socialist state but there are very few who actually want to return to a totalitarian one, and if it’s not totalitarian it’s not really what people mean by the USSR, is it?

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      russia is not close to being the ussr since the early 90s though

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        He didn’t say they were.

        He said the Russian flag is apparently based on the Soviet flag.

        Have you seen the Russian Federation flag?

        Hint: it’d be hard to get them confused.