Soviet Union

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federal state former sovereign state socialist state superpower

The Soviet Union was a socialist superpower that dominated Eastern Europe and led the communist bloc during the Cold War.

Aliases (24)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ×48
USSR ×10
former Soviet Union ×4
Soviet Russia ×2
Soviet Union (captured) ×2
CCCP ×1
Soviet Union (advisory support) ×1
Soviet Union (as an adversary in the Cold War) ×1
Soviet Union (as basin region before 1991) ×1
Soviet Union (diplomatic support for coalition) ×1
Soviet Union (diplomatically) ×1
Soviet Union (for Republican side) ×1
Soviet Union (for Republicans) ×1
Soviet Union (for Vietnam) ×1
Soviet Union (interwar period) ×1
Soviet Union (politically after victory) ×1
Soviet Union (politically) ×1
Soviet Union at the United Nations ×1
Soviet government under Stalin ×1
Soviet state ×1
SovietUnion ×1
post-World War II Soviet Union ×1
union of soviet socialist republics ×1
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик ×1

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	federal state → former sovereign state → socialist state → superpower →
blocLeadership	leader of the Eastern Bloc → leader of the communist bloc →
capital	Moscow →
continent	Asia → Europe →
countryCode	SU →
currency	Soviet ruble →
dateDissolved	1991-12-26 →
dateEstablished	1922-12-30 →
dissolutionCause	political reforms and nationalist movements →
dominantReligionPolicy	state atheism →
economicSystem	planned economy →
executiveBody	Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union →
foundedBy	Bolsheviks →
governmentForm	one-party socialist republic →
headOfGovernmentTitle	Premier of the Soviet Union →
headOfStateTitle	General Secretary of the Communist Party →
historicalEra	Cold War → Interwar period → World War II →
ideology	Marxism–Leninism → communism → socialism →
judicialBody	Supreme Court of the Soviet Union →
largestCity	Moscow →
lastLeader	Mikhail Gorbachev →
legislature	Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →
memberOf	United Nations → Warsaw Pact →
militaryAlliance	Warsaw Pact →
multiNationalState	true →
nativeName	Союз Советских Социалистических Республик →
notableAchievement	first artificial Earth satellite Sputnik 1 → first human in space Yuri Gagarin →
notableLeader	Joseph Stalin → Leonid Brezhnev → Mikhail Gorbachev → Nikita Khrushchev → Vladimir Lenin →
numberOfUnionRepublicsAtDissolution	15 →
officialLanguage	Russian →
officialName	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics →
opposedTo	NATO → United States →
participatedIn	World War II →
permanentUNSCMember	true →
populationPeakApprox	over 290 million →
precededBy	Russian Empire → Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic →
rulingParty	Communist Party of the Soviet Union →
securityAgency	KGB →
shortName	USSR →
sideInWorldWarII	Allies →
spaceProgram	Soviet space program →
statusDuringColdWar	superpower →
succeededBy	Baltic states → Belarus → Kazakhstan → Russian Federation → Ukraine → other post-Soviet states →
territoryCharacteristic	largest country in the world by area during its existence →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 1,659)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
100th Rifle Division → 107th Rifle Division → 12th Army (Red Army) → 163rd Rifle Division → 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union → 1937 Soviet legislative election → 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union → 1980 Summer Olympics → 1989 Soviet legislative election → 1st Baltic Front → 1st Belorussian Front → 1st Ukrainian Front → 21st Army (Red Army) → 26th Army (Red Army) → 2nd Belorussian Front → 322nd Rifle Division → 37th Army (Red Army) → 38th Army (Red Army) → 3rd Belorussian Front → 40th Army (Red Army) → 44th Rifle Division → 57th Army (Red Army) → 5th Army (Red Army) → 6th Army (Red Army) → 8th Guards Army → 9th Army (Red Army) → Aleksei Vinogradov → Allied air forces → Apollo–Soyuz Test Project → August 1991 Soviet coup attempt → Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) → Battle of Kursk → Battle of Lenino → Battle of Stalingrad → Beria period of the NKVD → Bolhrad, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union → Brezhnev stagnation → Bryansk Front → CPSU Central Committee departments → Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Central Front → Chief of the Soviet Civil Defense → Commander of the Bryansk Front → Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union → Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union → Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Constitution of the Soviet Union ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 → Constitutional Oversight Committee of the USSR → Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union → Council of People's Commissars → Crimean Conference → Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) → Dniprodzerzhynsk Metallurgical Technicum → Don Front → Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy → FC Krylia Sovetov Moscow → Far Eastern Commission → First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → First Secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine → Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union → Frontal Aviation → Frunze Military Academy → GPU → Gagarin Air Force Academy → General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey → Gosplan → Grain Elevator of Stalingrad → Great Purge → Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany → Gulag system → Head of Government of the Soviet Union → Hero of the Soviet Union → Holodomor → Industrial Academy in Moscow → Industrial Technical School in Saratov → Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → KGB → Kiev Special Military District → Klushino, Smolensk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union → Komi ASSR → Komsomol → Kuntsevo Dacha → Kuznetsov Naval Academy → Left Opposition → Leningrad → Leningrad Front (Soviet Union) → Leningrad State University → Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union → Long-Range Aviation → Lubyanka Building → Lwów Polytechnic → MGB → MVD → Main Camp Administration → Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy → Marshal of the Soviet Union → Medal for Battle Merit → Medal for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 → Medal for the Defence of Moscow → Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad → Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 → Middle Don offensive → Mikhail Kirponos → Mikhail Kovalyov → Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR → Military Transport Aviation → Ministry of Defense of the USSR → Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union → Mir program → Moscow City Soviet of People’s Deputies → Moscow Conference of 1943 → Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation → Moscow Sun Yat-sen University → Moscow defense zone → Mozhaisk defensive line → Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism → NII-88 → NKGB → NKVD → Narkom natsionalnostei → New Economic Policy → Norilsk camps → OKB-1 → OKB-1 → Operation Anadyr → Operation Bagration → Operation Koltso → Operation Kutuzov → Operation Little Saturn → Operation Mars → Operation Ring → Operation Rumyantsev → Operation Uranus → Operation Whirlwind → Order of Alexander Nevsky → Order of Glory → Order of Suvorov → Order of the Badge of Honour → Order of the Red Star ("USSR") → Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive → Party Congress → People's Artist of the USSR → People's Commissar for Nationalities → People's Teacher of the USSR → Perestroika → Polish deportees in the USSR → Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Presidency of the USSR → President of the Soviet Union → Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR → R-7 rocket → RKKA → Red Army → Red Army Kalinin Front → Red Army Reserve Front → Red Army Western Front → Road of Life → Russian SFSR → Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee → Sergei Korolev → Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) → Sielce near Ryazan → Sino–Soviet border conflict → Solovki prison camp → Southern Front → Southwestern Front → Southwestern Front Air Forces → Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front → Soviet 60th Army → Soviet 62nd Army → Soviet 64th Army → Soviet Air Defense Forces → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet Black Sea Fleet → Soviet Border Troops → Soviet Central Front → Soviet Championship League → Soviet Civil Administration in Korea → Soviet Don Front → Soviet Ground Forces → Soviet High Command → Soviet Internal Troops → Soviet Karelian Isthmus offensive → Soviet Military Headquarters in Karlshorst → Soviet Navy → Soviet Southwestern Front → Soviet Stalingrad Front → Soviet Steppe Front → Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces → Soviet Union national ice hockey team → Soviet Union women’s national basketball team → Soviet Western Front → Soviet armed forces → Soviet embassy in Tehran → Soviet football league system → Soviet government ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland → Soviet occupation of Kuril Islands → Soviet occupation of Manchuria → Soviet partisans → Soviet period → Soviet ruble → Soviet space program → Soviet space program → Soviet system of orders, medals and titles → Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan → SovietCivilians → Soyuz rocket → Soyuz spacecraft → Sputnik 1 → Stakhanovite movement → Stalin Prize → Stalin era → Stalingrad → Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector) → Stalinist repressions → State Anthem of the Soviet Union → State Bank of the USSR → State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR → Stavka → Summa, Karelian Isthmus → Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) → Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR → Supreme Court of the Soviet Union → Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR → Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union → Trial of the Sixteen → Trial of the Sixteen → Trial of the Twenty-One → VLKSM → VVS → Velikiye Luki offensive →	country
1939 Defensive War → 37th Army (Red Army) → Arctic theatre of World War II → Baltic offensive (1944) → Battle of Berlin → Battle of Khalkhin Gol → Battle of Kiev (1941) → Battle of Kolberg (1945) → Battle of Kursk → Battle of Lake Ladoga in World War II → Battle of Moscow → Battle of Odessa (1941) → Battle of Perekop (1941) → Battle of Raate Road → Battle of Stalingrad → Battle of Summa → Battle of Suomussalmi → Battle of the Atlantic → Battle of the Dnieper → Battle of the Don Bend → Continuation War → Crimean campaign → East Prussian Offensive → Eastern Front (World War II) → European Theater of Operations → Gulf War ("Soviet Union (diplomatic support for coalition)") → Invasion of Poland → Iran campaign (Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran) → Kollaa River → Korean War → Lower Silesian Offensive → Lublin–Brest Offensive → Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive → Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation → Middle Don offensive → North Caucasus offensive operations → Operation Bagration → Operation Barbarossa → Operation Koltso → Operation Kutuzov → Operation Little Saturn → Operation Mars → Operation Rumyantsev → Operation Spring Awakening → Operation Typhoon → Operation Uranus → Operation Whirlwind → Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive → Pacific War → Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) → Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) → South Sakhalin Offensive Operation → Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive → Soviet summer offensive of 1944 → Soviet–Afghan War → Soviet–Hungarian War → Soviet–Japanese War (1945) → Stalingrad → Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector) → Unternehmen Barbarossa → Unternehmen Taifun → Velikiye Luki offensive → Vistula–Oder Offensive → Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive → Vyazma pocket → Warsaw–Praga offensive → Winter War →	belligerent
12th Army (Red Army) ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → 163rd Rifle Division ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → 1st Polish Army → 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division → 5th Army (Red Army) ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Dmitry Yazov → Ivan Chernyakhovsky → Ivan Kozhedub → Kirill Meretskov → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Mikhail Kovalyov → Mikhail Shumilov → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Nikolai Yezhov → Polish Armed Forces in the East → RKKA ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri → Semyon Budyonny → Semyon Timoshenko → Sergei Akhromeyev → Soviet 62nd Army ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Soviet 64th Army ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Soviet Central Front ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Soviet Internal Troops ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Tania Chernova → Vasily Chuikov → Vassili Zaitsev → Yakov Dzhugashvili →	allegiance
2nd Polish Army → Bolesław Bierut → Bulgarian Communist Party → Czechoslovak Communist Party → Democratic Republic of Vietnam → EAM (National Liberation Front) ("Soviet Union (politically)") → Fidel Castro → Free France → Free French Forces → Free French Forces → Government of North Vietnam → Guomin Gemingjun → Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party → Italy (1943–1945, co-belligerent with Allies) → Kim Il Sung → Kingdom of Romania → National Liberation Front (EAM) → National Revolutionary Army → People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada → Polish United Workers' Party → Polish United Workers' Party → Polish Workers' Party → Polish forces → Todor Zhivkov → United Kingdom →	alliedWith
1937 Soviet legislative election ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Chief of the Soviet Civil Defense → Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union → Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Council of People's Commissars ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ("USSR") → General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey → Gosplan → Hero of Socialist Labour → Hero of the Soviet Union ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Medal for Labour Valour → Narkom natsionalnostei → People's Teacher of the USSR ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Presidency of the USSR ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Soviet High Command → Soviet period → Stalinist repressions → Stavka → Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) → Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") → Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union ("USSR") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Aleksei Vinogradov → Anatole Litvak → Andrei Sakharov → Boris Nemtsov → Boris Pasternak → Georgy Malenkov → Klaus Fuchs → Lev Kuleshov → Lev Landau → Lev Okun → Mikhail Gorbachev → Mikhail Kirponos → Nikita Khrushchev → Peter Kapitza → Sergei Eisenstein → Valeri Kharlamov → Vitaly Ginzburg → Vladimir Kurdyumov → Vsevolod Meyerhold → Vyacheslav Molotov →	citizenship
Communist Party USA → Czechoslovak StB → Eastern Bloc regimes → LWP → MSZMP → People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan → Polish Socialist Party (pro-communist faction) → Ramón Mercader → SED → Zygmunt Berling →	alignedWith
Iron Curtain → Kremlin Wall Necropolis → Leninism → Marxism–Leninism → Uncle Joe → Uncle Joe ("USSR") →	associatedWith
Aggregat 4 → Francis Gary Powers → Friedrich Paulus → Mannerheim Line → Messerschmitt Me 262 → Polish POWs →	capturedBy
Kresy ("Soviet Union (interwar period)") → Polesie Voivodeship → Second Polish Republic → Volhynian Voivodeship →	borderedBy
Polish–Romanian alliance → Rome–Berlin Axis → Tripartite Pact →	aimedAgainst
Andrei Sakharov → Ilia Kulik → Oleksiy Honcharuk →	birthCountry
Königsberg → Ladoga Karelia → Petsamo, Finland →	cededTo
Berlin Crisis → Continuation War → Sino–Soviet border conflict →	conflictBetween
Constitution of the Soviet Union → Wandel durch Annäherung →	appliesTo
Soviet Karelian Isthmus offensive → Upper Silesian Offensive →	combatant
Moscow Canal → Salang Pass →	constructedBy
Checkpoint Charlie → East Berlin →	controlledBy
SU →	abbreviationOf
United Nations Security Council Resolution 85 →	absentMember
United Nations General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") →	abstainingState
The Life of Klim Samgin →	adaptationCountry
Ivan Drago →	affiliation
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project →	agreementSignedBy
First World →	alignedAgainst
Commissar Danilov →	alignment
Churchill government →	alliance
Soviet embassy in Tehran →	alliedPowersRepresentedAtVenue
Northern Expedition ("Soviet Union (advisory support)") →	allies
Second Spanish Republic →	alliesInWar
Italian Co-belligerent Air Force →	ally
SU →	alpha2CodeFor
Kresy →	annexedBy
LebensraumPolicy →	appliedInRegion
HungerPlan →	appliesToTerritory
Boris Shaposhnikov →	areaOfInfluence
Hans Jordan →	areaOfOperations
The Iron Lady ("Soviet Union (as an adversary in the Cold War)") →	associatedWithCountry
Cossacks →	associatedWithState
Hungary in World War II →	attemptedArmisticeWith
Lee Harvey Oswald →	attemptedDefectionTo
Order of the October Revolution →	awardedIn
Czech–Egyptian arms deal of 1955 →	backedBy
Virtuti Militari →	bannedBy
middle Don River →	belligerentOnFront
6th Army (Red Army) →	belligerentSide
An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States →	beneficiary
Dmitry Medvedev →	birthPlace
Petsamo, Finland →	bordered
1984 Summer Olympics →	boycott
Games of the XXIII Olympiad →	boycottingCountry
1984 Summer Olympics →	boycottLedBy
Bucky Barnes →	brainwashedBy
1972 Summit Series →	broadcastIn
Party of Labour of Albania →	brokeWith
1980 Summer Olympics →	bronzeMedalLeader
Volga–Don Canal →	builtBy
Tabqa Dam →	builtWithAssistanceFrom
Babrak Karmal →	cameToPowerWithSupportFrom
St. Petersburg →	capitalOf
Type 38 rifle →	capturedAndUsedBy
Karelia →	cededTerritoriesTo
Pravda →	circulationArea
Battle of Taipale →	combatant2
Suomussalmi →	combatantsInvolved
IMT Charter ("Union of Soviet Socialist Republics") →	concludedBy
Francis Gary Powers →	convictedBy
Czechoslovak resistance →	cooperatedWith
Valeri Kamensky →	OlympicSilverMedalistFor
Valeri Kamensky →	WorldChampionshipGoldMedalistFor
Crimea →	YaltaConferenceParticipants