This year marks thirty years since the collapse of the USSR, but there are tens of thousands of people in Russia who do not believe in it. They believe that the Soviet Union is an existing state, but they are its full citizens. They set up various organizations, hold elections, demand that banks accept Soviet rubles, issue their documents, quarrel with each other and make peace.
“Citizens of the USSR” are not taken seriously by anyone but themselves. Much has been written about them in recent years, mostly as weddings – a bit amusing – as flat-minded – and dangerous – as HIV dissidents (people who call this infection fictional). It is clear that people who deny the collapse of the Soviet Union are a full-fledged social phenomenon. There are many of them – law enforcement agencies estimate that almost 150 thousand. And most importantly – they are very different. Among them are passers-by affected by big manners, as well as fraudsters and madmen, as well as selfless people who have spread their delusions in real motion
Ivan Kozlov, a correspondent for Takiedela in Perm, used an accidental meeting with “citizens of the USSR” to study the phenomenon and try to understand its scale and significance. The portal “Delfi” publishes the research in Latvian with the permission of the mentioned media.
How my homeland is reborn from ashes
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