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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Soviet Pavilion country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Soviet Pavilion (Century 21 Exposition)
this entity surface form: USSR
Kaunas offensive belligerent Soviet Union
Kaunas offensive countryInvolved Soviet Union
Pavel Piatakov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Huliaipole governingCountry Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Soviet Union (historically)
Soviet Operation Uranus belligerent Soviet Union
subject surface form: Operation Uranus
Soviet Operation Uranus country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Operation Uranus
Jiǎng Jīngguó educatedIn Soviet Union
Moscow school of topology country Soviet Union
Fritz David countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Fritz David country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Trial of the Sixteen
Fritz David country Soviet Union
subject surface form: Great Purge
Grigori Perelman birthPlace Soviet Union
Lev Pontryagin countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
4th Ukrainian Front country Soviet Union
Viipuri countryAfter1944 Soviet Union
Viipuri wasPartOf Soviet Union
Viipuri transferredTo Soviet Union
Fraternal Kiss mural associatedWith Soviet Union
Dmitri Vrubel countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Dmitri Vrubel countryOfBirth Soviet Union
Garegin II birthPlace Soviet Union
Battle of Kuhmo belligerent Soviet Union
Central Europe campaign belligerent Soviet Union
1927 Crimean earthquake country Soviet Union
Yemeni Air Force equipmentOrigin Soviet Union
Christian Rakovsky citizenship Soviet Union
Christian Rakovsky countryOfDeath Soviet Union
Dubrovno countryBefore Soviet Union
Vasily Popov countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
7th Guards Army country Soviet Union
7th Guards Army hasAllegiance Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Koki Hirota ambassadorTo Soviet Union
Harbin historicalInfluence Soviet Union
Battle of Voronezh (1942) location Soviet Union