How many Soviet republics were there?

There's no point in arguing with people who, behind the noise of their momentary outrage caused by minor life problems, idealize the most vile system in human history...

Dear Silvanis, you're exaggerating. You simply didn't live under Nero or Tiberius. :smile21: Just kidding.
But in any case, remember Nazi Germany and don't throw around such words.
Especially since you only know the USSR from the stories of those who were wronged by the Soviet regime. But notice that there is no regime that wouldn't offend anyone. And judging it based on the words of those who suffered is not objective. I, for one, lived in the USSR and saw with my own eyes the absence of many of the horrors that are now told about it.
By the way, I even read somewhere that a boy was taken "to the authorities" at school for wearing imported sneakers, allegedly for aiding capitalism... I would have believed it, but here's the problem - my mom, dad, me, and many of my acquaintances wore imported sneakers, jeans, and T-shirts... with the ABBA logo:smile36: ...oh, how I coveted such a T-shirt, but there were only adult sizes:smile36:
In short, a lot of nonsense is being written now about those times. Of course, we didn't have complete freedom of speech. But the US doesn't either. And no matter how much we admire the US here, with its economy, the decline of culture there is terrible (by the way, this is not just a Russian, "Soviet" opinion - look at how sarcastically Americans and their culture are portrayed in many European films). Meanwhile, we don't really have any other model to follow. We can't try to follow the path of Slovakia, for example - they emerged from socialism and built a "capitalism with a human face," but this is a small country with a completely different economy than ours. An elephant won't fit in a cat basket. So, either we will try to become the second most powerful player on the board, balancing the US, that is, we will also create a powerful, captivating ideology and come up with a "mission" for the country, or we will remain in the position of a market square, where developed countries come to sell their products, and we simply work as promoters in the branches of their shops.