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Yes, the USSR annexing it's neighbours and then exporting their resources and people was very much imperialism.
Read this book to stop seeming so silly.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/
Also the non Russian SSRs voted to keep the soviet union around at higher rates than the Russians.