The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) formally ceased to exist on 26 December 1991. The result was 15 more or less separate countries. Below are the 15 resultant countries. Can you match the flags?
This is just too weird to not share. First it has a totally surreal quality like that feeling you get just before you ram your car into a telephone pole. To add to the absurdity of it there is a bunch of Hollywood stars playing along like they are really digging it. It must have been some really good vodka that night, or maybe that is why they are called actors.
What clenches it for me though is looking at this guy singing this song, knowing that he is not what I am going to euphemistically call a “good person”. I sat there watching him wondering how many folks he has personally whacked or had whacked. Anybody rising to the top of the power heap in Russia did not do so with a nice smile and a firm handshake. I’ll stop. We all know what this man is about.