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> Russia yearns for the good old days.

Russia picked up all the Soviet Union debt obligations. All those successor states have been essentially debt free on day one.

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They _tricked_ others to take debt obligations for themselves. Since they took _all_ the Soviet properties as well.

That's _novel_ interpretation of that deal.

Yet, that's exactly what happened and you "conveniently" forgot to mention that Russia also took all the SU wealth and reserves. They even pulled back all of the weapons and military vehicles out of the ex-member countries, leaving them exposed and then started to help separatists in the wars against sovereign nations. Russia is shittiest neighbor of them all.

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