Note that when he mentioned Ukraine's "Decommunization," he apparently did so in a sneering Ukrainian accent.

Moreover, in the course of power struggle within the Communist Party itself, each of the opposing sides, in a bid to expand its support base, started to thoughtlessly incite and encourage nationalist sentiments, manipulating them and promising their potential supporters whatever they wished. Against the backdrop of the superficial and populist rhetoric about democracy and a bright future based either on a market or a planned economy, but amid a true impoverishment of people and widespread shortages, no one among the powers that be was thinking about the inevitable tragic consequences for the country.

You mean YELTSIN, you fucking asshole, whose name you won't even mention after all that shit about Lenin? You know, the guy who put you in power?

However, there was more to it than that. By the end of 1991, the USSR owed some $100 billion to other countries and international funds. Initially, there was this idea that all former Soviet republics will pay back these loans together, in the spirit of solidarity and proportionally to their economic potential. However, Russia undertook to pay back all Soviet debts and delivered on this promise by completing this process in 2017.

The USSR also had a lot of money and gold and assets stashed away in bank accounts all over the world. Russia accepted the USSR's sovereign debt as its successor state, but also got the USSR's assets.