The quake that's still shaking the Eastern world

[htpcl]

Zdravstvuyte, moi tovarischi greetings, my comrades! Do you know what date it is today? December 8, 1991. Does it speak anything to you? No? Well... Look at this map.

Comments

[luzribeiro]

The Russian people deserve much better than what they have had for the last 1 (2?) centuries, let alone those other peoples around them.

[abomvubuso]

You might be on to something.

[nairiporter]

This is simply epic!

[underlankers]

Well, they wound up taking over a full sixth of the planet and unlike the Germans wound up under totalitarianism with something other than an unmitigated disaster, going from Great Power to superpower. Russia as a rule has a mixture of both horror and unequaled and unrivaled success at imperialism and endurance. It IMHO was the only European superpower bar Britain for a damn good reason, and it's more than able to be a match for the entire EU from an economic standpoint. Even after all this.