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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Project 949 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
P-700 Granit anti-ship cruise missiles countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: P-700 Granit
Pokryshkin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Aleksandr Pokryshkin
Vera Alentova countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Abkhaz ASSR country Soviet Union
Eduard countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Eduard Tisse
Vremya countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Pesnya goda countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Vzglyad countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Utrennyaya pochta countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Programme One (First Programme of Central Television) country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Programme One
Programme Two countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
All-Union Programme country Soviet Union
Ekran satellites countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Sürgün country Soviet Union
Gorky Film Studio country Soviet Union
Programme Three countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Avel Yenukidze countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Oleh Kagan countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
SS-9 Scarp countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
RSD-10 Pioneer countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
SS-20 Saber countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Victor countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Victor-class submarine
Victor countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Victor I-class submarine
Victor countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Victor II-class submarine
Victor countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Victor III-class submarine
T-26 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Leninabad country Soviet Union
Bryansk offensive belligerent Soviet Union
Bryansk offensive countryInvolved Soviet Union
Vishnevskaya citizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Galina Vishnevskaya
Gumrak country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Gumrak airfield