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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Mil Mi-10 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Northern Eastern Front belligerent Soviet Union
Strela-2 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Russian mob countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Aleksei Kuznetsov country Soviet Union
Aleksei Kuznetsov citizenship Soviet Union
Mil Mi-12 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Kozliki, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Vasily Sokolovsky
Mil Mi-14 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Hubertus von Bonin placeOfDeath Soviet Union
film "Alexander Nevsky" by Sergei Eisenstein countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Alexander Nevsky (film)
Foliant program country Soviet Union
Vil Mirzayanov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Boris Yegorov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Boris Yegorov citizenship Soviet Union
Sokolovsky countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Vasily Sokolovsky
Clara Eißner placeOfDeath Soviet Union
Pavel Belyayev countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Class A Second Group country Soviet Union
Prusakova countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Marina Oswald Porter citizenship Soviet Union
Mil Mi-34 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
23rd Army country Soviet Union
Mil Mi-40 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Two Plus Four Talks countryInvolved Soviet Union
Asbjørn Sunde countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Sergo Beria countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Ekaterine Geladze placeOfDeath Soviet Union
Vladimir Fock countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Konstantin Igumnov citizenship Soviet Union
State Defence Committee country Soviet Union
Soviet occupation of Vienna country Soviet Union
Battle of Vuosalmi countryInvolved Soviet Union