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And you're refusing to accept that political and cultural divisions are a natural part of any state's existence; it has little to do with it being capitalist nor communist and those divisions will be based on the country's disposition. Ie workers rights for a worker's country like the USSR and oligarchical primacy for a country controlled by wealth like the US.
I bring up American successionist movements because they've been a thing for the United States just as much as the they were for the Soviet Union; my point could have probably been better made by the American civil war.
Secessionist sentiments in the united states were not nearly as big a thing as they were for soviet republics who faced economic and civic turmoil for decades.
A better comparison would be if after the US civil war, America fell apart entirely. That's the only reasonable comparison i can accept.
The United States almost did fall apart; it was mere luck that the North managed to hang on long enough for its natural advantages (ie the oligarchs) to come to the rescue and for a price.