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I get what you are saying but those countries were more like colonies than a part of Russia. My opinion is that they should have been left alone, like every country should, especially in that time when technology wasn't so hazardous and so widespread.

The fact that you managed to understand that I decry the collapse of the Soviet Union when my post said the exact opposite, namely that I can't see how in China an event like that could take place -- and this was the foundation on which I based my affirmation of Russians having a soul -- tells me that your agenda stands firmly on the side of the CCP, in detriment of everybody else. Quite sad, really.