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    1. Extreme-Shopping74 on

      for ww2, you should show the largest germany got in, which is somewhere behind the volga close to kazakhstan

    3. mrbobcyndaquil on

      So this is the *de facto* map, seeing that the illegal occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania is included.

    4. amievenrelevant on

      Imagine if Kazakhstan decided to keep the ussr title for itself during those 9 days or so

    5. Soft-Way-5515 on

      The map from October 1942 is inaccurate because the battles for Stalingrad and the Caucasus were already in full swing at that time. Tuva became part of the Soviet Union in 1944, and Southern Sakhalin in 1945.

    7. JohnnieTango on

      Thank goodness the USSR ended peacefully. I was alive throughits last couple decades, and honestly, at least into the 1970s it looked like it would be an eternal threat.

      The Russian state that suceeded it is certainly no prize, but it not a threat to remake the entire world into a totalitarian hellhole (yes, the USSR was THAT bad).

    10. MrZaptile933 on

      Isn’t Transnistria still self identifying as a hold out of the Soviet Union?

    11. Reasonable_Ninja5708 on

      The Supreme Soviet officially voted to dissolve the USSR 10 days after Kazakhstan declared independence. So technically the USSR existed without territory for 10 days.

    15. Ok_Calligrapher_3472 on

      Kazakhstan is number 1, exporter of potassium!
      Other Soviet Republics, have inferior potassium! (and is home of the gays)

    19. greatest_Wizard on

      the map is inaccurate, Sakhalin in 1942 could not have been completely controlled by the USSR, it happened only in 1945.