How many Soviet republics were there?

Regarding all historians: have you considered alternative viewpoints? For example, there's a good book by a historian from Ukraine, Zdorova, called "State Capitalism and Modernization in the USSR." It analyzes the actual system that existed, based on factual evidence. As Kozma Prutkov said: "If 'buffalo' is written on the elephant's cage, don't trust your eyes." So, don't believe what you're told without referencing facts. Take the precise, Marxist definition of communism and compare it to what existed in the USSR. And there's also the communism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, Blanqui, Proudhon, and others. Everything is different there. If I call Hitler's regime the pinnacle of democracy, it won't become more democratic because of it. The same applies to the USSR. No matter how many times you repeat that it was communism, it won't become communism.
And, by the way, most of Belarus's territory was transferred to Russia not after the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (of which there were three, as is known), but much earlier, in the 17th century, under Alexei Mikhailovich. When Russian troops liberated parts of Ukraine and Belarus from the Poles. The final borders of Belarus were established in 1939. If you are such a champion of justice, immediately return the Grodno region to Poland! It was Russian occupiers who took it from the Poles.