Countries that Bordered the USSR

Kaliningrad is next to east germany so, not that ridiculous...

It was traditionally German, but the USSR took it for Russia and gave the surrounding area to Poland.

Kaliningrad is not next to any part of Germany, it's like 200 miles away from Germany...

Kaliningrad was part of Germany, it was Königsberg.

emphasis on "was"

Konigsburg (or east prussia) was taken by the USSR and Poland after the Second World War. The USSR never bordered East Germany.

and 1310x longer than the Zambia-Botswana border

And infinity times longer than the Namibia-Zimbabwe border.

Also infinity times more than the Japan-El Salvador border.

And probably (not that I'm sure about the Norway-Russia/USSR border) 3 hours shorter than the Botswana-Zambia border!

Finland shouldn't have put the swastika on all their military stuff.

Yeah, the swastika was used by Finland long before Hitler was even born, let alone when the 3rd Reich was born, That's like saying that because Communist China and the Soviet Union have (or had) stars on their flag, They are like the US or the other way around.

Wayyyyy before that, it was a Hindu symbol. Oh, why did Hitler have to bring a bad name to that...

Apparently it was bost of a broken cross or something. Nothing to do with the Buddhism thing.

It was originally the symbol for Jainism, similar to Buddhism

swastika was never used by finns even before ww2, i am native finn so i know

I used to live in South Korea. They were quite happy to have had the help from the USA to maintain their independence. You think they would have been better off taken over by the Soviet-backed North? Really? You'd rather have been born in Afghanistan than in Seoul? My god you're a whacko. Iran was better off under the Shah than the Ayatollahs, too. I'm not arguing that the US is unimpeachable, but seriously, how out of touch and biased can a person get? Have you ever even been to any of these places and talked to them about how they feel about Russia and the Soviets? Your map shows you've been to Ukraine. Are your blinders that thick?

Thanks, Voda. So you're saying that Afghanistan is a nicer place to live than South Korea. Yeah you must know what you're talking about. Thanks for weighing in.

Okay well I didn't say anything about Serbia here. And though I don't recall the specific comment you are referencing, there are racist people everywhere, including Serbia. My negative opinion of Serbia has a lot to do with my negative experiences there and how I was treated, but I realize that's anecdotal evidence and not worth very much. I don't think that discredits anything I said above, or makes canadry's view any less biased or more credible.

"commie bad, murica awesome" ... tells us everything we need to know about what you are able to grasp, and how worthwhile trying to have a conversation with you would be.

And the St Vincent and the Grenadines Empire was even bigger than that!

Don't forget the Tuvaluan Empire, that was 50 billion times larger than the puny British Empire!

And the Vatican beats the lot!

St Vincent and the Grenadines and Tuvalu (part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands) were part of the British Empire

Y’all can’t forget the biggest: SEALAND

JackintheBox, I don’t think many people care, as it’s this thing you would commonly call, a joke.

@ABritishCat I know. I was just stating a fact amongst a whole comment section of jokes. Another fact (again, many people wouldn't care, but a fact nevertheless) is that St Vincent and the Grenadines and Tuvalu are both Commonwealth realms, so they retain the British monarch as head of state.

How could you forget the Alien empire...

You've all forgotten about the EMPIRE OF ATLANTIUM!

That must be remarkably small.

No, it's definitely the empire of Paul Atreides. With a death toll of 60 billion, no one has killed more than him!

What's going on is the Empire of Jupiter has brainwashed the inhabitants of this Solar System that there are no aliens, every once and a while you come in contact and we have to start the process over again, ever wonder why your 2 puny world wars happened? that was you being discovered by Mars and Venus respectively.

but wouldnt north korea and eastern germany then also be counted as USSR territory?

Then the USSR must have been a significant lot smaller.

Don't forget Ni- oh wait, I might get cancelled.

Those Soviets really needed their potassium...

Lol

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Excuse me... did you just say Googlestan? we only allow Yahoostan and Bingastan on this site, it's not at all like I'm using the G word right now.

I think the Googlestan empire rules.

lol

Well, I don't know but Kazakhstan was a part of Sovietstan

You forgot Firefoxstan! It's a very important country for the world (wide web)!

YES

Agreed

North Korea is only the Korea

but South Korea is also Korea, and North Korea is a democratic Korea

Unlike you ChaosLord, some of us are not perfect.

Well, we would expect him to be, he is a pretty high level, and has been taking these quizzes for a while.

Ukgbni doesn't have to be accepted for the United Kingdom, as the first two letters are already accepted for it.

Momgolia sounds like a brand of women's hiking clothes.

What?

No they weren't

Wasn't Finland part of the Russian Empire and Mongolia part of Qing Dynasty China?

Good.

The Soviet Union disintegrated. The United States remained the world's only superpower. The US and its allies clearly won. Unless you are saying that the entire exercise was unproductive and wasteful which, if so, fair enough.

The different US states did use to think of themselves as separate sovereign entities, but joined together in a common federation of independent states, probably similar to how different member states of the EU feel today. But that's pretty ancient history, now. Slowly the USA moved closer to something like the UK, where the constituent entities were independent and "states" ("countries") in name only, power was increasingly concentrated at the federal level, and citizens of individual states began to think less of themselves as Virginians or New Yorkers and more as Americans. Until finally we got to the status quo of the day where, in the US, if you hold allegiance to your state or city higher than to your country this is usually seen as quaint or cute but unrealistic, and only kooks and dingbats like Ted Cruz openly talk about secession, and then are publicly ridiculed for it.

Yeah, even in our age of polarization, no one is talking about the breakup of the United States. The difference is that the Soviet Union was really a successor state to the Russian Empire, which was made of dozens of ethnicities with their own histories and geographic regions. The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late '80s was the perfect time for these nations to regain sovereignty and break free of Russian influence. In contrast, most parts of the US have the same acknowledged history, and while we are ethnically diverse, our diversity isn't based around geography or history.

Maybe in the far future, regional cultures in North America will become distinct enough for the US to break up, but I doubt it'll happen anytime this century.