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...component regions) would be ideal -- except for the fact that there are 12 republics to deal with. The acronyms are hardly euphonious or politic. Turgutmakbak, for example, simply turns the new confederation into gobbledygook. Using syllables from some of the republics would be just as untenable. For example, the Belokazakirghuzbek Russukra Union (B.R.U.) would leave out the easily offended states of Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. And what would the country's inhabitants be called? Bruskis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.S.R. Or B.U.S.T. | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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