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Do people of ex USSR countries mourn their loss? So far it hasn't been an easy question to answer. In the first one i got

Post-Soviet world: what you need to know about the 15 states

From Armenia to Uzbekistan, your guide to the countries that rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union

Justin Burke for Eurasianet, part of the New East network
Monday 9 June 2014 00.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/09/-sp-profiles-post-soviet-states

i didn't see the point mentioned .. it's clear from it though the goal of free and fair elections has not been even close to realized in most of them, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova excepted .. i'd guess at least citizens of those 4 countries would not be keen to go back to pre-1991 .. how about the others? .. the poorest of the Caucuses, Armenia, gives a hint ..

Fortunately, however, many young Armenians have adapted to the changes, and have few regrets about the passing of the Soviet Union.

Suren Musaelyan, now 35, was a teenager when Armenia became independent. He had an opportunity to study journalism in Britain and is now deputy editor of Armenianow, a leading online news source.

“If the Soviet Union hadn’t collapsed, I wouldn’t have had a chance to be educated abroad,” he said.” I think that’s one of the bonuses of independence. In earlier years I wouldn’t have been able to dream of it,” he said.

Older Armenians are often amazed at how young adults can barely comprehend the difficulties of life in the Soviet Union.

“Young Armenians no longer understand that there was a time when Moscow decided how many pieces of soap were to be used a week in some town’s public toilet,” Alexander Iskandaryan, director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, said. “Because of the sheer scale of collapse here, Armenia has travelled a lot further away from the Soviet past than a lot of other states have done.”
https://iwpr.net/global-voices/memories-dim-armenias-soviet-past

.. lol, sure glad i edited my

'unless we believe it's fair for those people of the now defunct USSR to be brought under
the grip of authoritarian rule again then seems we have to agree Putin should be contained ..'

to read

".. unless we believe it's fair for those people of the now defunct USSR to be brought under
the grip of Russian domination again then seems we have to agree Putin should be contained .."

Is Donald Trump any threat to American democracy? Well, he does fit the authoritarian
mold. So he could pose a threat to those free and fair elections we all hold so dear.