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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Moris Slobodskoy countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: The Diamond Arm
Polikarpov Design Bureau country Soviet Union
Vitold Fokin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Valery Gerasimov allegiance Soviet Union
Ivan Rerberg countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
SS-11 Sego countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Andrei Fajt countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Tatyana Lioznova citizenship Soviet Union
Boris Gelfand citizenship Soviet Union
5V55 missile family countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Yuri Boldyrev countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
8th Estonian Rifle Corps country Soviet Union
2nd Shock Army country Soviet Union
59th Army country Soviet Union
Anatoly Vlasov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Far Eastern Direction country Soviet Union
1st Red Banner Army country Soviet Union
25th Army (Soviet Union) country Soviet Union
35th Army (Soviet Union) country Soviet Union
10th Air Army country Soviet Union
August Storm offensive belligerent Soviet Union
August Storm offensive country Soviet Union
Alexey Miller countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
NKVMF country Soviet Union
Tallinn disaster countryInvolved Soviet Union
Soviet hospital ship Viro country Soviet Union
Battle of Hiiumaa countryInvolved Soviet Union