How many Soviet republics were there?

I was disgusted by the way people talk about the death of Yeltsin. If he were a hero, that would be one thing, but he was a great provocateur. Let's go to the funeral of Hitler, Göring, and Goebbels, who led Germany out of the crisis of the Weimar Republic. And then immediately to the funeral of Pinochet, who saved Chile from a "possible communist dictatorship," and, of course, we can't miss the funeral of Franco, who brilliantly defeated the Republicans and established a dictatorship! Let's all go to the funeral of scoundrels and provocateurs! Let's immediately excommunicate Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky; they didn't fight against communism. Eternal shame to Mayakovsky and Blok! Doesn't this bother you yet? Now about communism. At least read the "Communist Manifesto," written by Marx and Engels, and then we can speak the same language. Communism is an economic concept, not a political one. If you say that communism equals dictatorship, then the most ardent communists are Franco, Pinochet, Hitler, Mussolini, Bush, Senator McCarthy, and Oliver Cromwell. Do you even understand the absurdity of this statement? To talk about communism as totalitarianism is the same as measuring weight in degrees or distance in Newtons. When talking about economics, use economic concepts; when talking about politics, use political concepts. If we talk about the system in the USSR, it was state capitalism with social guarantees and bureaucratic centralism. That's it. And not communism = totalitarianism = "Evil Empire."