Yeltsin forced Gorbachev to read decrees that, among other things, turned all Soviet property in Russia over to the Russian state, at that time the largest republic comprising the Soviet Union.

当时俄罗斯是苏联最大的加盟共和国，叶利钦迫使戈尔巴乔夫宣读政令，将所有在俄罗斯境内的苏联资产移交俄管理。

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Then I took up again the thread by asking what was the attitude of the Soviet Republic to the small nations who had split off the Russian Empire and had proclaimed their independence.

随后我挑起了苏维埃共和国对那些脱离沙皇俄国并宣布独立的小国是什么态度的话题。

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Kazakhstan is a former Soviet republic where Russian is widely spoken and the populace is predominantly Muslim.

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When the Bolsheviks sought to enforce control in the Caucasus in the early 1920s, Dagestan became an autonomous Soviet republic within the Russian Federation.

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It could even be the case that a future Russian republic-dominated Soviet Union would determine that the Soviets took the islands illegally in the first place, and return them to Japan, as a matter of principle, free of charge.

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