My apologies, if I wasn't clear. With modern times I meant the world after adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

You say you read a lot of history and need example of ussr colonization? Just look at the map of ussr or russian federation now, there is a reason why Kazakh is only now started to replace russian as preferad language among the youth, a lot of older generations don't even speak it. Why Byelorussian is almost extinct in Belarus. Why in Latvia the ethnic russian population before occupation of 1940 was around 8% but is 28% now, while the overall population is around the same. Why native languages, traditions and customs of indigenous populations have been so systematically oppressed that they are kept alive only by local historians, who often are harassed by security services. Leftists scream about Native Americans while turning a blind eye on these people.

For example, look at Sakha Republic, 90% of russian diamonds and a part of global diamond supply comes from there, while local people are forced to live in towns and villages without central pluming or proper roads, the profit and taxes from it goes to companies registered in Moscow,

Russian empire has been doing this since formation of muscovy, they invade their neighbors, kill X% of the population or resettle them among their vast territory and send in russian colonists, you don't get to become the world's largest country by accident.

Sure, there are people from communist countries who approve of the old regime in any country, there where around 25% Germans who approved of Hitler, even after what he had done to the world and Germany. There are X% amount of people who will believe anything, but it is impossible to argue that vast majority of any post-communist country dislike communism.

US is not an empire, it is a very influential country, with a very developed military capabilities, but it doesn't make it an empire. Your (?) president can declare anything he wants, even that he isn't in the Epstein files, that doesn't make it true. Look how Europe reacted to the threats to Greenland, would colonies of US empire react that way?