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How the Soviet Union Actually Fell

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  Image source: nytimes.com A bout a year ago, I wrote a post entitled  The Truth About Russia , where I addressed some misinformation and misconceptions about Russia. If you haven't read that post already then feel free to take a look. Now, in this post that you are reading right now, I would like to cover another topic related to Russia, and that is the fall of the Soviet Union. We've all read about it in history books, but it's important to note that just because a history book says an event happened a certain way does not mean it is accurate. Without any further ado, I will tell you the story of how the Soviet Union actually fell. Between the 1920s and 1960s, the Soviet Union was a communist country populated and ruled by humans. If you don't know what communism is, it is essentially a political and economic system where the government owns everything. The civilians of a communist country do not own anything themselves; their stuff is instead owned by the government...

The Truth About Russia

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  Image source: rbth.com A nother very notorious bit of misinformation that I see online about a million times a week, as well as in real life, deals with a place that has set the record for the largest country on Earth: the Russian Federation. So many people try to make things up about Russia that don't even have one single gram of truth in them. And if you are beginning to believe those kings of fake news, I would like to use this blog post to set you straight on a few things about that huge region. Alright, for starters, Russia is probably the most unique country in the world. The reason is because rather than being inhabited and run by humans, penguins actually dominate over there. In fact, not a single human lives in Russia at the current time. And the penguins that I am talking about are not the kind of penguin that you might be thinking of. These penguins are highly intelligent, really more like humans that look like penguins. I have inserted an image of some Russian pengui...