The statue of the Motherland Calls is a Soviet monument and that Motherland is the Soviet Union.
Ukrainians have a tendency to appropriate Soviet and call it Ukraine. Conversely, they would call any bad feature of Ukraine like corruption “Soviet”. 😆
Nuclear weapons were Soviet not Russian…
Russia however is the inheritor of the USSR. Russia inherited the debts of the USSR, including debts of Soviet Ukraine. Russia payed them all. Ukraine entered independence with a clean balance sheet. Russia is always blamed for crimes of the USSR. Russia is accused of fucking up Poland together with Nazi Germany, although the ultimate beneficiaries were Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. The capital of Lithuania is literally on the territory taken from Poland by the USSR. But USSR bad suddenly…
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