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The USSR was like the USA in that it was a federal system of states. The Soviet Union had "States Rights" issues. Unlike the United States, being in the Soviet Union was voluntary. The republics within the union decided to go their separate ways. The USSR split into the 15 republics that comprised it. Originally, they were supposed to go from a federation (USSR) to a confederacy (the Commonwealth of Independent States), but it has not worked out well. The CIS government is too weak to really qualify as a government. The United Nations and the United States recognizes the 15 states as individual nations, rather than the CIS.

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