How many Soviet republics were there?

Regarding Moscow, I don't understand. So, you think that when 80% of the financial capital is concentrated in one city, that's normal? And the people in the regions are ungrateful scoundrels who not only want to live a decent life but also dare to call a thief a thief? Do you know that my salary is twice the average? And the salaries of my university professors are below average. Where do these average figures come from then? It's like this saying: "I ate two chickens, and you ate none. But on average, we ate one chicken each." I will keep criticizing Moscow until there is a fair redistribution. With my salary, I can't even afford rent, let alone buy an apartment. And I don't think that the financial situation in the regions has improved compared to the USSR. It's easy to talk about the growth of prosperity while sitting in Moscow. I can criticize the USSR, but there are plenty of people doing that without me. It's just a pity that they don't provide a SINGLE statistic, only emotions. I can prove anything with emotions. But do you know that in Stalin's camps, only 8-20% were political prisoners, the rest were criminals? And of these political prisoners, most were imprisoned for crimes, such as terrorism or sabotage. All those "artists" who talk about how they were oppressed in the USSR weren't ashamed to receive awards from the Soviet government and weren't ashamed to promote the Soviet system. Look at Rostropovich, a laureate of the Lenin and Stalin Prizes, who supported the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Why didn't he refuse the prize in solidarity with Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn during the Soviet era? I hate hypocrites!