And when 'perestroika' (freedom) happened, corrupt elitists immediately jumped in to remake the authoritarian regime, but then the USSR split into into what is now known as Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan
I probably missed a few
Honestly I'm not really a politics person because I know I would get into big ahh arguments and I really would rather not do that in this site of all places.