[flagged]

Hm, first time I see that Russian bots came to HN, but here we are. The history of comments of this account is insane.

[deleted]

I believe just someone who got too deep into Russian propaganda rabbid hole. The comment is too leaky for somebody working in St. Petersburg / a LLM.

well, so you think, all parts and peoples of USSR were voluntarily part of USSR?

I was going to say that no country actually chose to join the USSR but perhaps I'm wrong.

Did any country voluntarily choose to join? Maybe Belarus?

No, not all, though you will be surprised how many convinced communists were even in Lithuania, to pick one example (a fact which today's Lithuania hides).

And do you think the people in Europe are voluntarily a part of your undeclared, but very much existing, empire?