[OT] Empires

Imre A. Szabo schrieb:
> > The US is also a real nation, not a third-rate pack of

I guess you could invent similarly accurate and irrelevant words to describe
Germans, Americans, Australians or anybody else.

> > I mean, how seriously can you take an empire that took

The question here is: is the Soviet union's era an apt comparison to the Roman
empire? Or should we rather compare Russia throughout its
history - at least from Ivan the Terrible, if not earlier - with the
Roman empire? Rome, too, had its civil wars, revolutions and violent changes
of govcernment. If you compare the communists with a single Roman dynasty,
their 70 years survival doesn't look too bad. And the whole history of Russia
isn't that much shorter than Rome's. Plus, Russia is still holding together,
even if it is in a bad shape.

Greetings

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