| Milan - I'm not sure your reason for excluding Russia is valid given that the current country of that name is a very different entity to the USSR and to pre-Revolutionary Russia in terms of its borders if nothing else. Also, Armenia was an independent state way back so, by your logic, it, too, shouldn't be included. Finally, one obvious omission - Yemen. The current Republic of Yemen only came into being in 1990 following the union of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the Yemen Arab Republic. |