Ukraine is weak

[Sleepy]

I just bought the game Risk. Haven't owned a copy before, just used other people's games. I open up the board and I see Russia where Ukraine was previously. When did this happen? I guess Kramer an Newman finally finished their game.

 

[HuskerWeatherman]

The area initially designated as Ukraine spent a short time on the game board as Eastern Europe until Hasbro took over ownership of Parker Brothers in 1991, the year Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the Soviet Union. The last version under the Parker Brothers label was made in 1993. When Hasbro reissued the game under its own name that same year, they decided to call the European region on the Asian border by a different name — Russia.

Russia, Ukraine, and the game of Risk

Shlomit Auciello is a writer, photographer, and human ecologist who has lived in Midcoast Maine since 1988. Letter From Away has appeared online and in print, on and off since

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