Old old map

I saw a map in my US History before 1877 class today that listed Kazakhastan as a independent state, and not in the USSR. It listed Russia as the Russian Federation. That must be a pre-USSR or beginning-USSR map because the USSR later controllred Kazakhastan as a satallite, and is now in the Commonwealth of Independant States. It looked really old too.

haha not to sound mean, but what was the point of this post?

IDK it is kinda interesting. Have you ever seen a map that old? I have not, although sometimes in school you see ones with USSR on them and I always get a laugh. Thought you guys may too.

Yeah i think that's pretty cool stuff, it just seemed like a weird thing to talk about. That's why it's in off-topic i guess.

Look at a map from 20 years ago and you'll see a lot of changes too. 2 Germanys, USSR, Yugoslavia...