User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Common Misconceptions of History Part 2: Great Empires/@comment-3528888-20140318221634/@comment-4621372-20140321213903

Scraw, were I to make a full list of Russian screwups, it would FAR outnumber that.

Also, are you joking?

Course it's been a failed state.

USSR. Killed up to 20 million of it's own people.

How you ask?

Well, for the most part, they starved to death.

They had a massive collapse in multiple points- most of which resulted in millions of their own people dying!

They were never properly unified until Peter the Great, they betrayed each other constantly before that, even today they are a giant excuse for a dictatorship, with giant corruption, and they're about to get their asses kicked by Poland!

Ok, probably not on the last one.

And as for Imp, please. The Russians would have won- assuming you didn't get exactly what you had in 1917, for exactly the same reason.

When you throw men to die in their millions, either you'll win- or those soldiers will decide they don't want to be thrown to die. And then, all that remains of you is a blood stain against a wall.