Technically yes, but since the Kazak independent Soviet Socialist Republic was a conglomeration of the republic of USSR, and that the Russian Federative Socialist Rebublic was the sole federation of the Union, it is known that Russia never declared independence, it just moved it self down form federation, to Independent Republic, and hence forth made the Kazak SSR, the Kazak Soviet federative socialist rebublic, the sole non-conglomerate of the USSR, making them the de facto Soviet Union, but not conglomeration within the Union as a member state.
The USSR is highly more complicated than a Wendover Production video would state
The world we live in, is extremely unfair when you think about it. Rich countries often tend to trick poor nations into receiving ‘aid’, while it is actually a loan that the less developed country will never be able to pay off. If it manages to, it leaves little money for development and the country won’t get any wealthier. Another of these tactics that more developed countries use to take advantage of less developed ones is by ‘helping’ them build up their infrastructure, but the country ‘helped’ to develop the poorer one often pays less than local companies for the product of the finished work. A good example of this is the Akosombo Dam in Ghana, where an American company that built it but also wants the hydroelectricity that the dam generated pays almost 50% less for it than the local companies (some of which also played a role in the construction.)