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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Checkpoint Charlie controlledBy Soviet Union
Mi-8 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Karelia cededTerritoriesTo Soviet Union
Karelia countryDuringSovietEra Soviet Union
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) countryInvolved Soviet Union
subject surface form: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Lee Harvey Oswald livedIn Soviet Union
Mikhail Frunze countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Peter Kapitza countryOfDeath Soviet Union
Peter Kapitza citizenship Soviet Union
Stanislav Kosior countryOfDeath Soviet Union
Operation Braunschweig opponent Soviet Union
Operation Braunschweig location Soviet Union
Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 establishesGovernmentType Soviet Union
this entity surface form: union of soviet socialist republics
Su-22 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Klaus Fuchs citizenship Soviet Union
Klaus Fuchs spiedFor Soviet Union
Anton Lopatin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Anton Lopatin militaryAllegiance Soviet Union
Anton Lopatin residence Soviet Union
8th Guards Army country Soviet Union
Vassili Zaitsev allegiance Soviet Union
9th Division (Finland) opponent Soviet Union
Kainuu front opponent Soviet Union
Battle of Raate Road belligerent Soviet Union
Mikhail Tukhachevsky allegiance Soviet Union
Semyon Budyonny allegiance Soviet Union
Boris Nemtsov countryOfBirth Soviet Union
Boris Nemtsov citizenship Soviet Union
Chiang Ching-kuo educatedIn Soviet Union
Raoul Wallenberg detainedBy Soviet Union
Massandra Winery historicalPeriod Soviet Union
Leningrad State University country Soviet Union
sambo countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
subject surface form: Sambo