Consider all the U.S.S.R. politicians that promised the Russian people the moon, and gave it to them. But what good did it do? It only caused poverty among them, poverty that lasts to this day.
You need learn something about multi ethnic composition of USSR, about union of Republics too. Still Russian Federation is a multi ethnic country. Poverty is caused by WW2 and jewish communists in government, founding of NATO and cold war costs.
In those days, everyone in America called it Russia.
Perhaps you live there. Perhaps it is not interesting for you. But many people would like to see the pictures of a place that is very near Russia. Much closer to Russia than America, or even Britain.