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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Vostok 1 countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Viet Minh supportedBy Soviet Union
Soviet literature countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
socialist realism countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Kolchak government opposes Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Soviet Russia
Soviet Navy country Soviet Union
Frunze Military Academy country Soviet Union
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Order of Kutuzov countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
Order of Alexander Nevsky country Soviet Union
hammer and sickle usedBy Soviet Union
Kronstadt historicalPeriod Soviet Union
Peasant Battalions (as allied formation) opposedTo Soviet Union
subject surface form: Peasant Battalions
Tomasz Arciszewski opposedTo Soviet Union
Council of National Unity opposedTo Soviet Union
perestroika country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Perestroika
Valery Gergiev placeOfBirth Soviet Union
Victory Day parades originatedIn Soviet Union
Union of Armed Struggle opposedBy Soviet Union
Livadia, Crimea wasPartOf Soviet Union
Kuznetsov Naval Academy country Soviet Union
Order of the Red Star country Soviet Union
this entity surface form: USSR
Commissar Danilov alignment Soviet Union