• MM18998B
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    2 months ago

    They were 4th in the early 2000’s and at one point had a population larger than the USA when they were the USSR.

    Not to mention the Cold War and they very much recovered from WWII.

    • chapeauetrangeB
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      2 months ago

      I think the Russian Empire/USSR always had a larger population than the US.