Re: Country names still needed

Quoting Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>:

> Can I venture a suggestion?  List Soviet republics by themselves.
> Though
> for the life of me I can't imagine what you'd use for, say, the Baltics
> (as
> long as you stick to animals).  There's a subculture in Lithuania
> whose
> symbol is, I think, some kind of black bear, but that's not really
> distinctive.  If I were choosing a new name for Lithuania, I imagine
> I'd
> link it to the word for amber.
Question: Is this supposed to be a list of present-day countries? If so,
there's no need to list any Soviet Republics at all, since, Aleksandr
Lukashenka notwithstanding, there aren't any.

Of course, the various independent countries that used to be SSRs deserve
being included just as much as any other country.

                                                                 Andreas

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