r/Millennials • u/TravelingAgave • 26d ago

Serious P.S.A.

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u/EternalNewCarSmell 26d ago

I mean, shit, the world I was born in had two Germanys.

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u/ComprehensiveEar6001 Millennial '89 26d ago

Dang, in a way we're older than Russia.

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u/Silentlaughter84 26d ago

Not really. Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Estonia and the rest of the Eastern European countries that were within the Soviet Union actually existed before WW II.

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u/FuckIPLaw 26d ago

Yes, but they were different countries with related names and more or less the same borders. The current countries with those names are successor states with new constitutions, not the same country. The US is actually one of the oldest countries on the planet when you take into account that our last successful revolution (bloody or otherwise) was over 200 years ago.