How many Soviet republics were there?

Here, take this. Your "project" won't go any further than words on the forum.
Still, people of your type need "intoxicating" ideologies, so if you want, I can come up with a couple for you. Maybe after the second collapse, people will stop clinging to such ideologies. No matter how many facts you and Alexei present to us now, the USSR was what it was, and your position can be understood. It's like a provincial person who lived and saw things. And will they show you much? Or is everything done in a showy way? Your main argument is that you lived and didn't see it. What about decrees, orders, archives, statistics? (Alexei, I'll bring you facts when I have time; I don't have much internet access right now). I see your angry face, dear Slonysh, so I'll back down in advance and won't argue anymore. Or write.

Dear Berserk, aren't you tired of it? "Face," "provincial"... Maybe you really are a berserk? You know, people probably got into that state under the influence of something...
Even if I were a provincial, the fact that you use this word as an insult shows snobbery and ridiculous arrogance. But I must disappoint you; your insight has failed you. Next time, when you want to guess someone's place of residence, just take a peek at their passport – it will be more reliable.
I'll note that nothing written in this thread is more absurd than your words:

No matter how many facts you and Alexei present to us now, the USSR was what it was, and your position can be understood. It's like a provincial person who lived and saw things. And will they show you much? Or is everything done in a showy way? Your main argument is that you lived and didn't see it. What about decrees, orders, archives, statistics?

in this topic. You might as well say, "I'll show you an archive." If your archives say that human sacrifices to Jupiter were practiced in the USSR, I will still rely on my personal experience. As Woland said, "He almost drove me crazy by proving to me that I don't exist!"
And if you had read even one of my posts carefully, you might have noticed that I am not referring to what I "didn't see," as you put it, but to what I did see. And if I saw that even schoolchildren told jokes about the Politburo (out loud, not secretly in basements), then it's useless to wave documents in front of me about how people were imprisoned in the USSR for "words in the toilet."
As for your nonsense about "my Project," I advise you to come out of your berserk state and not attribute political ambitions to me.
I've already repeated to you three times in this thread that resorting to personal attacks in a political discussion is rude; now I'll add that it's also stupid. If I am talking abstractly about a state system, then there is no need to launch into tirades about what ideology is needed for "people of my type" and what "project" I have. I'm not discussing my type, my ideals, or my shoe size here. Focus on the topic of the USSR, not on guesses about the personal preferences of forum users.
And if in the first lines of your post, I simply thought that you absolutely didn't understand what and why I was saying, then by the last lines, I had an interesting thought about why you wrote all this. With your rude, familiar words about "face," did you want to provoke me? Well, don't stop; move on to "legs" and other body parts. Maybe you'll immediately convince everyone of your position. Besides, the discussion would be much more boring without a villain-provocateur.:smile33: