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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (8 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd say 90s - no USSR but Yugoslavia is still on the map

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The USSR is on the map - that big greenish thing in the east ...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It doesn't say USSR, it's divided into Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's divided into the Soviet Republics I believe.

There's also Eastern Germany so the map cannot be from any later than 1990.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd say that's exactly when this map was made. Before the official reuninification but when the USSR was already falling apart, with these countries quickly becoming separate.

It's not a very good map no matter the exact time period

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the countries were always separate within the union, it was a federation. they had their own flags and languages.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not really, they had separate flags but in reality they were completely subordinate to the central government. Local languages such as Ukrainian and Lithuanian were repressed.

Also they were named "Lituanian SSR" or "Ukrainian SSR" unlike on the map.

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