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By the way, please clarify whether East Germany and other Soviet Bloc states voluntarily became part of the Soviet Empire. Lenin himself stated that internal Soviet nations were colonies.

Mao stated that Soviet Russia practiced Imperialism underneath a communist facade.*

Putin has sworn to avenge the fall of the Berlin Wall, which he witnessed directly as a young KGB station officer in East Germany, and the resulting collapse of the USSR, of which he is quoted as saying:

"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart.
Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."

--And so here we are, witnessing the attempted reconstruction of the Imperial Russian Empire instead.
That of course would once again include all those vassal states just as before, including a newly vanquished Ukraine where the Russians are once again large and in charge.

*Hat tip to "Infinite Chaos" over at DP for the Mao reference!