After a bit more thought, I realised that the issue with Ukraine vs the Ukrainian SSR wouldn’t be unique and would likely also be true for Russia vs the Soviet Union. It also turns out that the Byelorussian SSR was also a founding UN member, and so we’re going to hit the same issue with Belarus.
In each of these cases, the original Soviet State is listed in Wikidata as having been a member from the 1940s–90s, but each of the successor states is also listed as having been a member since the 1940s. This doesn’t seem right to me — I suspect the modern ones should start ~1991, and we should add “replaces”/”replaced by” qualifiers to tie them together, but this could be contentious so I’ve asked about it on Project Chat first.
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