Do you think the Georgians would agree with you? How about the Ukrainians?
>> Do you think the Georgians would agree with you? How about
>> the Ukrainians?
I was actually born in the Ukraine so I happen to know a few things about what Ukrainians think :)
But to call today’s Russia USSR shows you are unfamiliar with what it was like at all. The command economy is dead. The Soviet welfare state is dead. The Soviet marxist-leninist dogma is not being preached or indoctrinated. There is open international travel, availability of the Internet (which would have been unthinkable during Soviet times) and private ownership and accumulation of wealth are allowed.
Many things have changed.
But, having said that, Russia can be imperialistic with or without the Communist ideology. Russia originally annexed Georgia when it was ruled by the Czars.