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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Ilya Ilf countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Prokopy Zubarev country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Case of the Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites
Russian space station Mir countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Mir
Sinyavino Heights country Soviet Union
poem "Humour" countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Humour
poem "In the Store" countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: In the Store
poem "Fears" countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Fears (poem)
poem "A Career" countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: A Career
Euromissile crisis countryInvolved Soviet Union
Spartacus (Phrygia) countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
The Stone Flower countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
The Flames of Paris countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Klimov M-100 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
David Kipiani countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Voroshylovsk country Soviet Union
Kommunarsk country Soviet Union
AL supportedBy Soviet Union
subject surface form: Armia Ludowa
Aleksandr Lebed 14.52% countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Aleksandr Lebed
Pyotr Popkov country Soviet Union
CGF country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Central Group of Forces
Kengir uprising country Soviet Union
APAS docking system countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
APAS docking system countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: APAS-75
APAS docking system countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: APAS-89
Shosseynaya Airport country Soviet Union
Starobelsk camp country Soviet Union
S. Yaroslavtsev countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Arkady Strugatsky
S. Yaroslavtsev countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
subject surface form: Boris Strugatsky
S. Yaroslavtsev countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Strugatsky brothers
S. Yaroslavtsev countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
V. A. Fedorov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Mars 5 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union