The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous Soviet socialist republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR. The Russian SFSR was composed of sixteen smaller constituent units of autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais and forty oblasts. Russians formed the largest ethnic group. The capital of the Russian SFSR and the USSR as a whole was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad, Stalingrad, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Gorky and Kuybyshev. It was the first Marxist-Leninist state in the world.
The economy of Russia became heavily industrialized, accounting for about two-thirds of the electricity produced in the USSR. By 1961, it was the third largest producer of petroleum due to new discoveries in the Volga-Urals region and Siberia, trailing in production to only the United States and Saudi Arabia. In 1974, there were 475 institutes of higher education in the republic providing education in 47 languages to some 23,941,000 students. A network of territorially organized public-health services provided health care.
On 7 November 1917 [O.S. 25 October], as a result of the October Revolution, the Russian Soviet Republic was proclaimed as a sovereign state and the world's first constitutionally socialist state guided by communist ideology. The first constitution was adopted in 1918. In 1922, the Russian SFSR signed a treaty officially creating the USSR. The Russian SFSR's 1978 constitution stated that "[a] Union Republic is a sovereign [...] state that has united [...] in the Union" and "each Union Republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR". On 12 June 1990, the Congress of People's Deputies adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty, stated that the RSFSR shall retain the right of free secession from the USSR. On 12 June 1991, Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), supported by both liberal and conservative movements, was elected the first and only President of the RSFSR, a post that would later become the Presidency of the Russian Federation.
The August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt in Moscow with the temporary brief internment of President Mikhail Gorbachev destabilised the Soviet Union. Following these events, Gorbachev lost all his remaining power, with Yeltsin superseding him as the pre-eminent figure in the country. On 8 December 1991 against the will of the masses, the heads of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belovezha Accords. The agreement declared dissolution of the USSR by its original founding states (i.e., renunciation of the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR) and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a loose replacement confederation. On 12 December, the agreement was ratified by the Supreme Soviet (the parliament of the Russian SFSR); therefore the Russian SFSR had renounced the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and de facto declared Russia's independence from the USSR itself and the ties with the other Soviet republics.
On 25 December 1991, following the resignation of Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union (and former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), the Russian SFSR was renamed the Russian Federation. The next day, after the lowering of the Soviet flag from the top of the Senate building of the Moscow Kremlin and its replacement by the Russian flag, the USSR was self-dissolved by the Soviet of the Republics on 26 December, which by that time was the only functioning parliamentary chamber of the All-Union Supreme Soviet (the other house, Soviet of the Union, had already lost the quorum after recall of its members by the several union republics). After the dissolution, Russia took full responsibility for all the rights and obligations of the USSR under the Charter of the United Nations, including the financial obligations. As such, Russia assumed the Soviet Union's UN membership and permanent membership on the Security Council, nuclear stockpile and the control over the armed forces; Soviet embassies abroad became Russian embassies.
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dang I thought my gf's sister might have been a leftist until I met her and she said this whole thing that gave me brain damage:
This might cancel me, but I still want a Tesla. I like corporations. I think I'm a fascist. What is fascism?
she listens to red scare
"Is this class consciousness?"
"Oh god! oh fuck! Its class collaboration."
It's possible that she's ignorant enough to save. An empty vessel can be filled with knowledge.
making a big deal about federating and then just not doing it is honestly a great bit
Yeah it'll be $230 extra a month, we're pretty sure your cats are gonna cost us over $1660 in cleaning fees by next year - also, pay us another $1000 cause fuck you. What are you gonna do about it? Lie about your pets, yeah right.
wtf!? pet deposit AND “one-time fee”? i hate hellworld
First.
Went through old texts from a friend and re-contextualized our relationship. Turns out she is not in to me like that even in the ambiguous way i am in to her like that and i'm just progecting. It's extremely weird having what amounts to a log of the past, then going over it and realizing that your memories are quite distorted.
That's something I keep thinking about
I've done something similar since recently I've been kind of all over the place thinking about the friendships and other relationships that I've had and hope to have.
And looking back I've come to the realization that while I feel close to people I don't always show it as much. I've had work friends that reach out to me and we can have good conversations. I've been wondering if or why I may come off as being distant to people and its starting to hit me that no matter how friendly I may act towards people the fact that I don't really put in much effort towards initiating conversations with them has probably lead to me losing contact with people I really care about. Even now, with my crush showing me affection (light touches, compliments, etc) and asking me out I've realized that while I can be a bit playful and friendly, I've never really shown the same level of affection towards her. Makes me feel like shit TBH, but I've been working on reconnecting with people.
This is actually something super super common. For some reason we are wired to interpret things differently than they are LITERALLY said in text, so when you are messaging people through text you should always double check to read the words you both actually wrote and also to give the other person a gratuitous interpretation
girl whos been covid sick playng disco elysium for 2 weeks straight: whoa [any possible experience you can have in real life] is just like disco elysium
Can you feel nostalgic for something you've never experienced? Yes this is related to the mega's topic
:yea: also because i've seen whatever welfare and state enterprises built before 1991 get dismantled slowly.
Christ, my parents are so out of touch
Lecturing me about how people close to my age have bought homes but leaving out true key fact that was done before 2020 and the housing market has been hell since. Fucking boomers
my mom keeps telling me “i was able to buy a house at ur age” but that was the 80s with a housing market that would be completely unrecognizable today. she just says “no, its shouldnt make a difference what decade it is.” literally zero concept of material conditions changing over time. its so frustrating
The price of housing didn't meaningfully change between like 1919 and Reagan. It's very "i would like to do felonies" when you put average home prices in to an inflation calculator and cansee the exact moment housing was commodified.
They should make a .cum top level domain. I want to post on hexbear.cum. I want to search for things on google.cum. why won't they make my dreams a reality
attacked a lib on reddit the other day and he deleted his account, now i have an unhealthy amount of pent up aggression with no outlet
COME BACK AND FIGHT ME COWARD
baseball is so boring the guys they pay to commentate it literally just make small talk because -nothing- is happening with the game
This is another point in me getting into this sport. It's basically a podcast playing over footage or a bunch of dudes hanging out.
Baseball is an intense hyperbolic thrill ride compared to test cricket. (I like test cricket)
A match consists of four innings (two per team) and is scheduled to last for up to five days
madonna mia
Baseball is a great stadium game, terrible televised game
I hate that I have all these excellent impulses and ideas while I'm at work, then I get home and can barely bring myself to do the minimum required to get to the next shift.