Rank, welcome to reading history according to the calendar. We have talked to you about a lot of Soviet stories, and some enthusiastic netizens have communicated with us: Why do you always use the name Ofeuvelle, hasn't the Soviet Union passed? Is it reasonable to use the former Soviet Union? yes.
In fact, flipping through many newspaper articles in the 90s and early 2000s, many of our media used the former Soviet Union when describing the neighbor next to us.
In recent years, a large number of media practitioners have used the Soviet Union. In fact, the direct use of the Soviet Union should be said to be a more standardized name, because there is only one Soviet Union in the world, and he has survived for 69 years, and there is no later Soviet Union.
That is to say, for things with only one, it is better to use his name directly, and there is no distinction between before and after.
If we look at Chinese history, it is clear that the reason why we have the Western Han Dynasty is because there is the Eastern Han Dynasty; the reason why we have the Northern Song Dynasty is because of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Even in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, when the Five Hu chaohua was good, there were many Later Qin, Later Zhao, and Later Yan, why did there be a Later? That's because there is a name for the country in front of it.
When people call themselves, such as the people of the Northern Song Dynasty, they cannot call themselves Northern Song people, and people must call themselves Great Song people. And for those dynastic names that have only been used once, it is impossible to distinguish them from the east, west, south, north, and back.
How could this not be the case in the Soviet Union? There was no post-Soviet Union with the name Soviet Union, and the reason why many people used the former Soviet Union at that time may be because the Soviet Union was close to the fall of the country.
Just like in the Republic of China era, many of us talked about the Qing Dynasty, and they all used the title of former Qing, when the Qing Dynasty just died out, talking about the past few years, the past ten years, many people are willing to use the former Qing.
After the founding of New China, especially in these years, we talk about the Qing Dynasty again, just like talking about the Ming Dynasty, we cannot use the former Qing and the former Ming.
We use the late Qing Dynasty and late Ming Dynasty, which means the late Qing Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty. If you use the pre-Qing Dynasty at this time, it will cause misunderstanding to everyone, saying, are you referring to the early Qing Dynasty?
So when it's been almost 30 years since the Soviet Union died today, it's more appropriate for us to use the Soviet Union, but is there a specific context for the term former Soviet Union? In fact, there are also some, for example, when we comment on Gorbachev, we can say that he is the leader of the former Soviet Union.
Gorbachev's former decoration is Gorbachev himself, saying that he was the former leader of the Soviet Union, not that he was the leader of the former Soviet Union. In the same way, we are referring to the republics of the SOVIET Union, and we would like to speak of the republics of the former Soviet Union.
It's a bit like when we often say that Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, these areas are the former Yugoslavia, not that there is a post-Yugoslavia in the world, but only that these places were formerly part of Yugoslavia, so we are still willing to use the word Soviet Union.
Original author: Li Chengwei