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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We Are from Jazz countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
We Are from Jazz country Soviet Union
City Zero countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Zvenyhora countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Kino-Pravda countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Kim allegiance Soviet Union
subject surface form: Kim Philby
Paul Keres countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Antiworlds countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Oza countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
The Triangular Pear countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Akula countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Akula-class submarine
SS-N-21 Sampson countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
SS-N-15 Starfish countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Akula I countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Roma in the Soviet Union country Soviet Union
Olga Aroseva countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
A. F. Strelkov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Crimean ASSR country Soviet Union
Shvetsov ASh-82FN countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
The Deserter countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Minin and Pozharsky countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
On Film Direction countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Galina Luchai countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Galina Luchai countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: White Sun of the Desert
Lavochkin La-9 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Raisa Kurkina countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Raisa Kurkina countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: White Sun of the Desert
Soviet War Memorial country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
Country’s Air Defense country Soviet Union
SA-10 Grumble countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Fishpot countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
K-5 (AA-1 Alkali) missiles countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: K-5 (AA-1 Alkali)
RP-9 radar countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Lenino country Soviet Union
SS-24 Scalpel countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
15P961 Molodets countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Spanker countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
MR-UR-100 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Derg-era Ethiopian Army supportedBy Soviet Union