Starlin's Attitude in Russia

A few weeks ago, we had in social networks a kind of a mam or inphographic lating. And i think even some european politicians shared it. It basically created an image that russia was born out of amer ch between the two. The idea is that lenin created soviet with soviet socialist republics who had their borders and who had their kind of a fakue sovereignty. But still, it was a sovereignty, right? So it was not a russian empire without any borders inside, as starling was initially wanted to make. This rRussian ideology, put in istydeologyst saying that this was a major mistake.