From the great knowledge base (kek?) known as Wikipedia, which is usually accurate on etymology:
The word soviet is derived from the Russian word sovet (Russian: совет), meaning "council", "assembly", "advice",[s] ultimately deriving from the proto-Slavic verbal stem of vět-iti ("to inform"), related to Slavic věst ("news"), English "wise", the root in "ad-vis-or" (which came to English through French), or the Dutch weten ("to know"; cf. wetenschap meaning "science"). The word sovietnik means "councillor".
So a "Soviet Union" (as opposed to the socialist "USSR") would essentially be a union of the wise or a group of the informed. If Putin wants to set up THAT kind of union, I say: where do we sign up?
The stuff I've been hearing from MSM is that "it is for gas" or "Putin is dreaming of building his own Soviet Union".
No really, they're actually saying that.
From the great knowledge base (kek?) known as Wikipedia, which is usually accurate on etymology:
So a "Soviet Union" (as opposed to the socialist "USSR") would essentially be a union of the wise or a group of the informed. If Putin wants to set up THAT kind of union, I say: where do we sign up?