USSR dissolved in 1991 when its last member state, Khazakstan, left. Russia, which had left the union prior, found itself with a lot of nuclear warheads. Other ex-member states agreed to hand the nukes they had to Russia. Having nuclear weapons and having the means to maintain them and launch them, Russia naturally joined the Security Council in 1991.

It’s kind of a revolution though because it all started with Maydan and the ousting of Russian puppet Yanukovitch.

I would say freedom, fallacies, and magic are not chemicals.

So it’s fine for a culture to pretend to have invented something or take something as their own as long as that something is from a culture that happens to be in the same country?

To me, that’s cultural appropriation, no matter whether it happens within the same country or not.

As a Quebecois, I like that Canadians like poutine. I don’t like that they pretend they have invented it. I also like that they like maple syrup and the traditions surrounding it (cabane à sucre). I don’t like that they appropriate it as a thing of their own (we produce 90% of global maple syrup).

What I meant to say is that the cellulose is coated with plastic. I learned this from another post in the same thread.

Plastic coating to make the bag more resistant to heat.