That’s not how the stages of grief work. The last step is for example that you accept your cancer and see that there ain’t nothing you can do about it. When the doctor says you’re done, there is no cherry pit pillow that can help you.

So MLs accepted the status quo rather than trying to change it?

How many of them were Russians? Russia was the biggest part of the USSR and they didn’t dissolve the union but the other (smaller) states left.

Well, the USSR did in fact smash the Makhnovshchina. It wasn’t just memes, they fought together against the Whites and then the Reds turned against their former Black allies and destroyed them.