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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7th Army country Soviet Union
21st Army country Soviet Union
21st Army allegiance Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
21st Army militaryBranchOf Soviet Union
21st Army garrisonCountry Soviet Union
19th Army country Soviet Union
19th Army allegiance Soviet Union
20th Army country Soviet Union
20th Army allegiance Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Marien Ngouabi influencedBy Soviet Union
Uljana Semjonova placeOfActivity Soviet Union
WPC supportedBy Soviet Union
subject surface form: World Peace Council
Stockholm Appeal supportedBy Soviet Union
Martin Sixsmith coveredTopic Soviet Union
Bobruysk offensive countryInvolved Soviet Union
29th Army country Soviet Union
29th Army allegiance Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
33rd Army country Soviet Union
33rd Army allegiance Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Helene Fischer countryOfBirth Soviet Union
Wrangel Island formerSovereignState Soviet Union
Ladd Air Force Base associatedWith Soviet Union
Boris Gnedenko citizenship Soviet Union
VChK successorState Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Martin Latsis countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Martin Latsis allegiance Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Soviet Russia
Martin Latsis allegiance Soviet Union
Jakov Peters countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Special Departments country Soviet Union
Red Army units country Soviet Union
NKWD country Soviet Union
subject surface form: NKVD
NKWD appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Union
subject surface form: NKVD
NKWD operatedInTheTerritoryOf Soviet Union
subject surface form: NKVD
Komitet do spraw Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego alignedWith Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Związek Radziecki
Informacja Wojskowa (we współpracy) alignedWith Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Związek Radziecki
Złoczów, Poland wasUnderRuleOf Soviet Union
Anna Ulyanova countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
Tashauz partOf Soviet Union
1966 Tashkent earthquake country Soviet Union