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Well, the USSR is gone, and the sooner Putin figures that out the better for everyone.Both sides can make a feast out of red herring.
USSR was never legally dissolved. While each Soviet Republic could leave Soviet Union following a specified constitutional process, there was no provision for dissolvement of the Soviet Union in the Soviet Constitution. Leaders of 4 out of 15 Soviet republics could not meet secretly and jointly proclaim the break up of the country. That was done illegitimately