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 bastards who not only want to live a decent life but also call a thief a thief? Do you know that my salary is twice lower than the average? And the salary of my professors at the university is also below average. Where do these average figures come from then? There's 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 pay for utilities. 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 criticizing it without me. It's just a pity that they don't provide a SINGLE figure, 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 quite criminal offenses, such as terrorism or sabotage. All those "artists" who talk about how they were oppressed in the USSR were not ashamed to receive awards from the Soviet government and were not ashamed to promote the Soviet system. Now, Rostropovich, a laureate of the Lenin and Stalin Prize, who supported the collapse of the Union in 1991, has died. Why didn't he refuse the award in Soviet times out of solidarity with Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn?
I hate hypocrites!