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Not theirs and you conveniently omit everything what happened in between, including the giant amounts of money directly and indirectly poured into it.

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What do you mean it was not theirs? The Soviet Union was dissolved and split into multiple states. Russia is not the Soviet Union, just another part of the former Soviet Union like Ukraine.

Russia is not the Soviet Union, except when we need to talk things like the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia or all the other horror stories about the USSR. Then it was indeed Russia, and Ukraine was just a kidnapped state.

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Please, take a 15 minutes to educate yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Armed_Forces#Structure_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Rocket_Forces

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