No, the average American has always viewed the Soviet Union as just Russia, and uses the two terms interchangeably. This is even funnier when you consider that Soviet Ukraine quite literally had its own representative in the UN, but of course the average American also knows nothing about the UN.
Do these people not realize Ukraine is a soviet country too? If using soviet standards the Russia Ukraine war is a civil war.
No, the average American has always viewed the Soviet Union as just Russia, and uses the two terms interchangeably. This is even funnier when you consider that Soviet Ukraine quite literally had its own representative in the UN, but of course the average American also knows nothing about the UN.
I actually would argue that we’re in a long Soviet civil war period post 1991 (counting all post Soviet conflicts)
Soviet rump states fighting over the scraps while Yeltsin opens his trenchcoat and asks if anyone wants to buy any state industries at 80% discount.
The dissolution of the ussr was an illegal act
Warring states period
Post-soviet sengoku jidai
Romance of the Three People’s Republics