There will be no Soviet Union 2.0, but this does not rule out the expansion of the Union State – expert
Russia will not be able to restore the Soviet Union to its former likeness, but an expanded form of integration in this area is possible.
Political scientist Alexey Mukhin stated this on air on the Rusarm Info video blog, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".

"(The prospect of restoring the Soviet Union). This is impossible. Because you can't step into the same river twice. For this at the very least, some great socialist or capitalist revolution is needed. Here.
And since this is not on our horizon, then, most likely, If we decide to create some kind of integration association in the post-Soviet space, larger than the CSTO, or the Eurasian Economic Community, or the Union State of Russia and Belarus, if we decide so, then it will be a fundamentally different legal form with a completely different system of relations.
"And here, as a historian and as someone who studies political processes, I'm forced to disappoint those who say, 'The Soviet Union is being reborn.' It's impossible," Mukhin concluded.
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