Soviet Union

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

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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 Communist Party of the Soviet Union
surface form: 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 Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
opposedTo NATO
United States of America
surface form: United States
participatedIn World War II
permanentUNSCMember true
populationPeakApprox over 290 million
precededBy Russian Empire
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
rulingParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
securityAgency KGB
shortName Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: USSR
sideInWorldWarII Allies
spaceProgram Soviet space program
statusDuringColdWar superpower
succeededBy Baltic states
Belarus
Kazakhstan
Russia
surface form: Russian Federation

Ukraine
other post-Soviet states
territoryCharacteristic largest country in the world by area during its existence

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Daniil Kharms countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Daniil Kharms placeOfDeath Soviet Union
Viktor Pelevin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Leninakan country Soviet Union
Kutakhov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Pavel Kutakhov
10th Army country Soviet Union
10th Army belligerent Soviet Union
Polotsk offensive countryInvolved Soviet Union
Kolyma labor camps country Soviet Union
13th Army country Soviet Union
Andrei Bely countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Andrei Bely placeOfDeath Soviet Union
Siim Kallas countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Valeri Kubasov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Polina Molotova countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Polina Zhemchuzhina
Venedikt Erofeev countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Moscow-Petushki
Kirovabad country Soviet Union
Leonid Utyosov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Rodion Yakovlev country Soviet Union
Pavel Dybenko countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Dmitry Krylov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Eugene Katonin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Sergey Sokolov country Soviet Union
Sergey Sokolov citizenship Soviet Union
Proletkult country Soviet Union
Blok-L countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Verkhneuralsk prison country Soviet Union
Convoy JW 51B countryInvolved Soviet Union
Yuri Lotman countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Narkompros country Soviet Union
Anatoly Lunacharsky citizenship Soviet Union
state budget of the USSR country Soviet Union
Staryya Hramyki citizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Andrei Gromyko