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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Zubr countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Tal countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Mikhail Tal
The Magician from Riga countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Mikhail Tal
Tolbukhin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Fyodor Tolbukhin
Ukrainian Helsinki Group country Soviet Union
Siberian Cossack Host country Soviet Union
Demyansk operations countryInvolved Soviet Union
Yashin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Lev Yashin
MiG-1 fighter aircraft countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: MiG-1
Palace of Pioneers countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Larina countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Anna Larina
Larina countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Nikolai Bukharin
Oksana Grishuk countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Tarasova countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Anatoly Tarasov
MiG-3 fighter aircraft countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3
Novy Mir countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov citizenship Soviet Union
Novy Mir magazine countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Novy Mir
Gopchik countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Gorsha Sur countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Ulana Khomyuk in Chernobyl countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Ulana Khomyuk
Soviet state archives country Soviet Union
Yakov Pavlov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
An-24 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Starobinsky countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Alexei Starobinsky
Persian Gulf crisis countryInvolved Soviet Union
Sajjad Zaheer placeOfDeath Soviet Union
Yak-42 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Boris Spassky countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Battle of Lake Khasan belligerent Soviet Union
Rosa Smekhova countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Iran crisis of 1946 countryInvolved Soviet Union