. . . . . . . "\"State Anthem of the USSR\""@en . . "Flag of Russia 1991-1993.svg"@en . "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Other names)"@en . . . "Flag RSFSR 1918.svg"@en . . . . . . . . . "Constitution of the USSR, 1936 w. amendments"@en . . . "1922"^^ . . . . . . . . . "Lithuania"@en . "World War II"@en . . . . . . "--12-21"^^ . . . . . "Coat of arms of the Soviet Union.svg"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Russian Civil War"@en . . . . "vertical"@en . . "45"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "+2 to +13"@en . . . . . . . "and"@en . . "Flag of Moldova.svg"@en . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, shortened as the Soviet Union, was a state that was a union of multiple sub-national Soviet republics. It existed from 1922 to 1991, when it was dissolved. Fifteen independent states emerged after its dissolution, with the Russian Federation assuming the Soviet Union's rights and obligations. From the end of World War II in 1945, there was a state of political and military tension between the United States and its NATO allies and the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact. This conflict was known as the Cold War, since it never escalated escalated to full scale fighting between the two sides, but there were regional wars, known as proxy wars, which were supported by the two sides. During the Cold War, there was a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, although no nuclear weapons were ever fired. The closest the Cold War ever came to escalating to full-scale nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. On October 24, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis had been going on for nearly ten days, and many people thought the world would end that week. Colonel Lomax and the retired Lieutenant General Leslie Groves went to Doc Brown's mansion to offer Emmett Brown a large sum of money to invent a time machine, in order to prevent it from ever happening. Emmett Brown showed them his prototype time machine, the temporal field capacitor. After a test, the two men are interested, and Groves informs Emmett that he'll never have to worry about funding again. After Lomax and Groves left, Emmett had worries that he could be ushering in an arms race through time, coupled with his regrets about ushering in the nuclear arms race of the Cold War through his participation in the Manhattan Project. He had a nightmare that saw Marty McFly travel from 1982, speaking Russian. He dreamed that he went to the future in the DeLorean time machine and saw the Soviet Union and the United States bringing soldiers through time to fight an unending war, as the two sides would always know the outcome and would continue to try to stop it. After waking up the next day, Doc sent a letter to himself through the temporal field capacitor to August 1, 1962, when he knew that he and his dog Copernicus would be safe asleep in the fireproof lab in Doc's garage. The process of sending the letter so far back in time led to a buildup of flux energy, leading to an electrical fire, destroying Doc Brown's mansion. In the new timeline, the two men never talk to Doc Brown, as they believe him to be an insurance thief."@en . "Europe"@en . . . . "1989"^^ . . "1991"^^ . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0301\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A; Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), abbreviated to USSR (Russian: \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420; SSSR) or shortened to the Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437; Sovetskiy Soyuz), and at times informally referred to as Reds (Russian: \u041A\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043D\u044B\u0435; Krasnyye) in reference to their Communism, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. Out of the 15 republics of the USSR, Russia was the largest in terms of size, and making up over half of the total USSR population, dominated the union for its entire 69-year history. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the provisional government that had replaced the Tsar. They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (renamed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1936), beginning a civil war between the revolutionary \"Reds\" and the counter-revolutionary \"Whites.\" The Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire and helped local Communists take power through soviets, which nominally acted on behalf of workers and peasants. In 1922, the Communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian republics. The newly-founded USSR became a founding member of the Philosophers, alongside the United States of America and China."@en . . "no"@en . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0301\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; IPA: [s\u0250\u02C8j\u0289s s\u0250'v\u02B2etsk\u02B2\u026Ax s\u0259t\u0361s\u0268\u0250l\u02B2\u026As't\u02B2it\u0361\u0255\u026Ask\u02B2\u026Ax r\u02B2\u026As\u02C8publ\u02B2\u026Ak] abbreviated to USSR (Russian:\u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420, tr. SSSR) and SU (Russian: \u0421\u0421, tr. SS) or shortened to the Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437, tr. Sovetskij Soyuz;IPA: [s\u0250'v\u02B2etsk\u02B2\u026Aj s\u0250\u02C8j\u0289s]), was a Stalinist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. It was governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.[7] A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. It operated a unique form of capitalism in which the control over capital was exercised through a state monopoly."@en . . . . . "Latvia"@en . ".su"@en . "The Op-Yop was a toy marketed in the 1960's by a company based in Royal Oak, Michigan called Kramer Designs. The company's original location was an office on Adams in the neighboring community of Birmingham. The history we could find was based on a Time Magazine article in 1968 where it was stated that a million of the Op-Yops had been sold and another million were expected to sell by Christmas. In my travels, I have found some additional information including an internal memo relating to some six months worth of advertising that was done on the Soupy Sales Show with Soupy doing the commercials shot in Detroit. There were also memo's to retailers advising them to stock up on the toy to be in sync with the Soupy Sales ads. I tracked down the original molder who made the parts and talked to "@en . "Moldova"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Belarus"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Mikhail Gorbachev \nVladimir Putin"@en . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics () abbreviated to USSR () or shortened to the Soviet Union (), was a Marxist\u2013Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a single-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital."@en . . "Turkmenistan"@en . . . . . . "15"^^ . . . . "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"@en . . "Soviet Union"@en . "Dem fucking commies!"@en . . . . . "The Soviet Union after World War II"@en . "Flag of the Soviet Union"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "no"@en . . . . "Flag of Turkmen SSR.svg"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Estonia"@en . . "None"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and competed at the Games on 18 occasions since then. At seven of its nine appearances at the Summer Olympic Games, the team ranked first in the total number of medals won, it was second by this count on the other two. Similarly, the team was ranked first in the medal count seven times and second twice in nine appearances at the Winter Olympic Games. The Olympic Committee of the USSR was formed on April 21, 1951 and was recognized by the IOC on its 45th session (May 7, 1951). In the same year, when the Soviet representative Constantin Andrianov became an IOC member, the USSR officially joined the Olympic Movement. The 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki became first Olympic Games for Soviet athletes. On July 20, 1952, the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Soviet sport was won by Nina Romashkova in the women's discus throw. Romashkova's result in this event (51.42 m) was the new Olympic record at that time. The 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo became the first Winter Olympic Games for Soviet athletes. There the first Winter Olympic gold medal in the history of Soviet sport was won by Lyubov Kozyreva in women's cross-country skiing 10 km event. The USSR was the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. These Games were boycotted by the United States and many other countries, and subsequently, the USSR led a boycott of the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Although the USSR ceased to exist on December 26, 1991, The Olympic Committee of the USSR formally existed until March 12, 1992, when it disbanded. In 1992, 12 of the 15 former Soviet Republics competed together as the Unified Team and marched under the Olympic Flag in the Barcelona Games, where they finished first in the medal rankings. The Unified Team also competed at the Albertville Winter Games earlier in the year (represented by seven of the twelve ex-Republics), and finished second in the medal ranking at those Games."@en . . . . . "The obverse of the flag of the 1923-1991 former Soviet Union was red with a small golden stylized hammer and sickle symbol in the canton. The reverse was a plain red field."@en . "Soviet Russia"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Vladimir Ivashko"@en . "The Soviet Union was the first nation to send an object into space. It was known as Sputnik, which was sent to bring communism to aliens. After that, they sent a monkey, then a man, then a city, then their country into space. They also were the first to harness nuclear power. Their methods to harness this immense power was by splitting and torturing baby atoms for science. They also created an atomic reactor to heat the atoms up to 8 billion degrees Fahrenheit, which outraged many atomic rights groups. They also had a scientist who made a bullshit table of elements."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "DC's Legends of Tomorrow"@en . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Commonly shortened to \"Soviet Union\") was a Pre-War nation located across both the European and Asian continents. Initially the main rival of the United States in the 20th century, tension between the two countries began to cool down in the 1960s, and the \"Iron Curtain\" of Soviet satellite states dissolved in the 1970s, amid drastic free-market reforms to the Soviet economy. Although not in direct conflict with any nation, the Soviet Union was struck during the Great War of 2077, mainly by the Chinese, in response to the Soviet-American alliance."@en . . "none"@en . . . . . . . . . "Moscow"@en . . . . . . "N"@en . . "1990"^^ . . . . . . "Flag of Kazakhstan.svg"@en . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also called Soviet Union, was a socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. See also: Russia"@en . . . "The Soviet Union is a playable army featured in Company of Heroes: Eastern Front."@en . . "Moscow, Russian SFSR"@en . . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Commonly shortened to \"Soviet Union\") was a Pre-War nation located across both the European and Asian continents. Initially the main rival of the United States in the 20th century, tension between the two countries began to cool down in the 1960s, and the \"Iron Curtain\" of Soviet satellite states dissolved in the 1970s, amid drastic free-market reforms to the Soviet economy. Although not in direct conflict with any nation, the Soviet Union was struck during the Great War of 2077, mainly by the Chinese, in response to the Soviet-American alliance."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union, also known as the U.S.S.R., was a dictatorship located on the Eurasian continent which existed during the 20th century, defined by its ideology of Communism. The Union fought against the Nazis during World War II, and later opposed the United States during the Cold War. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed due to failing economy and crumbling ideology. It was a precursor to capitalist Russia."@en . . . . . . . . . . "Mikhail Kalinin"@en . . . . "The Soviet Union was the name givin to the the united countries it was made up of. They led the KGB and were the main enemies alongside the Blisk in Destroy All Humans! 2."@en . . . . "Moscow"@en . . . . . . . "right"@en . . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was an union of countries in northern Eurasia. It was governed as a single-party state that existed between 1922 and 1991, ruled by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital."@en . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0301\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A; Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), abbreviated to USSR (Russian: \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420; SSSR) or shortened to the Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437; Sovetskiy Soyuz), and at times informally referred to as Reds (Russian: \u041A\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043D\u044B\u0435; Krasnyye) in reference to their Communism, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. Out of the 15 republics of the USSR, Russia was the largest in terms of size, and making up over half of the total USSR population, dominated the union for its entire 69-year history."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD. After Yezhov was executed, he was edited out of the image."@en . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was reformed into Russian Federation. In the original timeline, Skynet launched a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Soviet then launched a nuclear attack in response to the, apparent, American assault.[citation needed]"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Kyrgyzstan"@en . . "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"@en . . "File:Internationale-ru.ogg"@en . . . . "The Red Revolution (Revolution of October 1917) caused the downfall of the Russian Empire Following the Russian Revolution, there was a struggle between the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the anti-communist White movement. In December 1922, the Bolsheviks won the civil war, and the Soviet Union was formed with the merger of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic."@en . "President"@en . "7"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "The Commissar Vanishes 2.jpg"@en . "-National Anthem of the USSR The United Soviet Socialist Republic or more commonly referred as The Soviet Union was founded in Revolution by the working class, led by Vladimir Lenin in the 1922. The belief that everyone was equal, and that the government should control everything was the main point of the Soviet Bloc, which spread to over 1/6th of the world's inhabitable land before falling in 1991."@en . . . . "The Soviet Union or U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), now Russia, is the most used country for the antagonists in past Bond movies. James Bond visited the Soviet Union several times, and know both foes and friends there. He is shown to be in Siberia at the start of A View to a Kill before he escapes on a submarine. In GoldenEye, Bond travels there to meet a CIA agent Jack Wade know to have a Rose tattoo. Bond also meets Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky an ex-KGB agent, who set a meeting up with Alec Trevelyan known in Russia as \"Janus\"."@en . "Soviet Ruble"@en . . . . . "Men's"@en . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. Image:30px-Geographylogo.svg.pngThis article is a -related stub. You can help the My English Wiki by [ expanding it]."@en . . "275"^^ . "E"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Kyrgyzstan Flag 1991.svg"@en . . . . . . "The Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was an union of countries in northern Eurasia. It was governed as a single-party state that existed between 1922 and 1991, ruled by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital."@en . "The Soviet Union, also known as the U.S.S.R., was a Communist superpower that existed mostly in the area now occupied by Russia."@en . . "\u041F\u0440\u043E\u043B\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u0432\u0441\u0435\u0445 \u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043D, \u0441\u043E\u0435\u0434\u0438\u043D\u044F\u0439\u0442\u0435\u0441\u044C!"@en . . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics () abbreviated to USSR () and SU () or shortened to the Soviet Union (), was a Marxist\u2013Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. It was governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Administrative division of the Soviet Union"@en . "State Emblem of the Soviet Union"@en . . . . "The Soviet Union, also known as the U.S.S.R., was a dictatorship located on the Eurasian continent which existed during the 20th century, defined by its ideology of Communism. The Union fought against the Nazis during World War II, and later opposed the United States during the Cold War. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed due to failing economy and crumbling ideology. It was a precursor to capitalist Russia."@en . . . . . "Flag of Belarus .svg"@en . . . . . ""@en . . . . "The Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437, Sovetsky Soyuz), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A, Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), was a socialist state that extended throughout Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It composed of 15 different members, with Russia as the administrative state. It existed from 1922 to 1991, when it was split up into several different republics, most notably Russia."@en . "1922"^^ . . . . . "Soviet General Secretary"@en . . . . "See also: Russia"@en . . . "293047571"^^ . . "Soviet"@en . . . . "Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik"@en . . . . . "Flag of Tajikistan 1991-1992.svg"@en . . . . . "220"^^ . . . . "1991"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "Government type: Federal Semi-Presidential Republic According to the Constitution, the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics is a federal semi-presidential republic, wherein the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. The bicameral Supreme Soviet, made up of the Soviet of Republics and the Soviet of the Union, acts as the legislative branch of the Union, with the power to adopt federal law, declare war, and approve treaties."@en . . . . "1952-04-01"^^ . . . "The Soviet Union also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), The acronym in Russian is \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A(\u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420), is traditionally considered to be the successor of the Russian Empire and of its short-lived successor Provisional Government under Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov and then Alexander Kerensky. The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, ruled until March, 1917 when the Empire was overthrown and a short-lived Russian provisional government took power, the latter to be overthrown in November 1917 by Vladimir Lenin. From 1917 to 1922, the predecessor to the Soviet Union was the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), which was an independent country as well as other Soviet republics at the time. The Soviet Union was officially established in "@en . "People's Glorious and Eternal Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"@en . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, shortened as the Soviet Union, was a state that was a union of multiple sub-national Soviet republics. It existed from 1922 to 1991, when it was dissolved. Fifteen independent states emerged after its dissolution, with the Russian Federation assuming the Soviet Union's rights and obligations. During the Cold War, there was a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, although no nuclear weapons were ever fired. The closest the Cold War ever came to escalating to full-scale nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962."@en . "Red_Communist_Party.jpg"@en . . . . "The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a powerful, Communist-governed nation (1922-1991). During the Cold War, it was the United States's principal adversary and rival. Dr. Manhattan played a crucial role in maintaining deterrence so that a deadly conflict would not break out between the countries. When Dr. Manhattan leaves for Mars in late 1986, deterrence breaks down, and the Soviet Union, emboldened, invades Afghanistan (something which happened in our world in 1979). A global nuclear war looms which is only averted when the contending powers come to believe that the Earth is threatened by aliens, thanks to Ozymandias's ambitious hoax. By the end of Watchmen, an accord between the United States and the Soviet Union has considerably reduced tensions, and created hope"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437, Sovetsky Soyuz), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0301\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A, Soy\u00FAz Sovy\u00E9tskih Socialist\u00EDcheskih Resp\u00FAblik, \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Europe And Asia between 1922 and 1991. The Soviet Union formed when the Bolsheviks, a Marxist party led by Vladimir Lenin, attempted to overthrow Tsar Nicholas II and institute a communal state. The ensuing Russian Civil War between the Red Bolshevik Army and the Tsarist White Army led to the nation withdrawing from the First World War and the eventual establishment of the Soviet Union. After Lenin's death, he was succeeded by Joseph Stalin, who consolidated his power and turned the country into a totalitarian regime. The Soviet Union existed as a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1990. A union which eventually included 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly-centralized government and economy. In June 1941, Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union, breaking the non-aggression pact, which the latter had signed in 1939. After four years of brutal warfare, the Soviet Union emerged victorious as one of the world's two superpowers, the other being the United States. In the late 1980s, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform the state with his policies of perestroika, a system of limited free enterprise, and glasnost, the restoration of free press. However, these policies led to the unintentional weakening ofthe Soviet Union, which formally dissolved in December 1991. It should be noted that using the gentilice Russians is wrong, firstly for historical reasons, and secondly, the Soviet Union was at the time comprised of another 14 Republics. This would be akin to the United States abusing the word America, which refers to a continent."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Shortly before World War II, Valirover was assassinated by American forces and was succeeded by Olaf Tutchenko, who started the WWII. Olaf was also the chancellor of Germany, and so the two countries invaded Poland in September 1953. In June 1954 the Soviets invaded China, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. China war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the cost of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Valirovergrad. American forces eventually captured Berlin in 1958. The territory overtaken by the U.S Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged by 1960 as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 1961. Following Olaf's death in 1958, a period of political and economic liberalisation, known as \"de-Tutchenkosation\" and \"Faust's Thaw\", occurred under the leadership of Alexander Faust. The country developed rapidly, as millions of peasants were moved into industrialised cities. The USSR took an early lead in the Space Race with the first ever satellite and the first human spaceflight. In the 1960s, there was a brief d\u00E9tente of relations with the United States, but tensions resumed when the Soviet Union deployed troops in Outworld in 1961. The war drained economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to alien fighters. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Viktor Krum, sought to further reform and liberalise the economy through his policies of glasnost and perestroika. The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing economic stagnation. The Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes. This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well. Central authorities initiated a referendum\u2014boycotted by Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and the Baltic republics\u2014which resulted in the majority of participating citizens voting in favour of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d'\u00E9tat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners. It failed, with Russian president Boris Yeltsin playing a high-profile role in facing down the coup, resulting in the banning of the Communist Party. On 25 December 1991, Krum resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and has emerged as the recognised primary legal successor of the Soviet Union."@en . . "This page is a stub. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. A more informal name also used among its residents was the Union (Soyuz)."@en . . . "The Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437, Sovetsky Soyuz), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A, Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), was a socialist state that extended throughout Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It composed of 15 different members, with Russia as the administrative state. It existed from 1922 to 1991, when it was split up into several different republics, most notably Russia."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "File:Soviet Anthem Instrumental 1955.ogg"@en . . "Russian SFSR"@en . . . . "Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov"@en . "Federal Single-Party Socialist State"@en . . . . . . . . "22402200"^^ . . . . "The Soviet Union was a former Communist state occupying Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It consisted of fifteen member republics, the largest of which was Russia. The official religion of the Soviet Union was atheism. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia was formed by Russian Orthodox Christians fleeing persecution. The Soviet Union, along with China, was a leader in the worldwide Communist movement. Pope John Paul II took a stand against Communism."@en . . . . . . ""@en . . . . "120"^^ . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. Image:30px-Geographylogo.svg.pngThis article is a -related stub. You can help the My English Wiki by [ expanding it]."@en . . . "Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic"@en . . "The Soviet Union was a communist nation and was involved, with the United States, in the Cold War. Russia, Belamisk, and Kazakhstan were both located in the Soviet Union. (TXF: \"The Pine Bluff Variant\"; \"Patient X\"; TLG: \"Bond, Jimmy Bond\") The Soviet Union kept one of the last remaining storage of the Smallpox virus. (TXF: \"Terma\") In the early stages of World War II, the Soviet Union entered into a non-agression pact with Nazi Germany. (TXF: \"Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man\") Soon, however, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The subsequent Soviet counteroffensive would become the main reason for Nazi Germany losing the war. (TXF: \"Triangle\") According to Melvin Frohike, the Cigarette Smoking Man's father worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. He kept the Soviets informed on the United States' plans to enter World War II. (TXF: \"Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man\") From 1945 to 1953, the population of the Soviet Union rose from 180 million to 800 million people (a statistic that proved to be false due to the Soviet Union not experiencing a post-World War 2 \"baby boom\" like the one in the West experienced at the time) . (TXF: \"Travelers\") Early in the Cold War, top scientists in the Soviet Union were able to produce both cloning technology (the Gregor Series) as well as primitive Eugenics programs. (TXF: \"Colony\"; \"Eve\") During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a fleet of Soviet minesweepers disappeared near Norway at the 65th parallel. (TXF: \"Dod Kalm\") Colonel Calvin Henderson was a reclamations expert for the United States Air Force, which meant that he was heavily involved in keeping United States aircraft out of Soviet hands, by any means possible. (TXF: \"Fallen Angel\") In 1980, the Soviet Union narrowly lost against the United States in an Olympic hockey game. According to Melvin Frohike, the Cigarette Smoking Man was responsible for the win by secretly injecting the Soviet goaltender with novocaine. (TXF: \"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man\") On December 24, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, signaling an end to the Soviet Union. (TXF: \"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man\")"@en . . . . . "Soviet Union"@en . "\"The Internationale\""@en . . ".su2"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Soviet Union was a big country in the world, who existed between 1922-1991, and in 2007-2008 again. At 1900's, it was composed by 15 republics: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 2007, after the annexation of Belarus by Russia, this one changed its name to Soviet Union again, but in the war to dominate Poland and the rest of the Europe, the russians were humiliated. Almost a hundred million people died for the soviet side, while Poland lost 100 men."@en . "Flag of Kyrgyz SSR.svg"@en . . . . . "Allies"@en . . "Flag of Azerbaijan.svg"@en . "The Soviet Union, or U.S.S.R, was a grouping of countries which existed on Earth during the 20th century. Russia was part of the U.S.S.R. and, as such, the Russian language was extensively spoken by its peoples. Ukraine and Kazakhstan were also parts of the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: Thin Ice, 1963: The Space Race) East Germany also joined the Soviet Union following the seperation of Germany after the Second World War. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive)"@en . . . . . . . . "15"^^ . . "The Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437, Sovetsky Soyuz), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0301\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A, Soy\u00FAz Sovy\u00E9tskih Socialist\u00EDcheskih Resp\u00FAblik, \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Europe And Asia between 1922 and 1991. It should be noted that using the gentilice Russians is wrong, firstly for historical reasons, and secondly, the Soviet Union was at the time comprised of another 14 Republics. This would be akin to the United States abusing the word America, which refers to a continent."@en . . "Eurasia"@en . "Soviet Ice Hockey Federation"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Uzbekistan"@en . . . . . . "Shortly before World War II, Valirover was assassinated by American forces and was succeeded by Olaf Tutchenko, who started the WWII. Olaf was also the chancellor of Germany, and so the two countries invaded Poland in September 1953. In June 1954 the Soviets invaded China, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. China war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the cost of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Valirovergrad. American forces eventually captured Berlin in 1958. The territory overtaken by the U.S Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged by 1960 as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 1961."@en . . . . . "Workers Unions, Oppression, Guns, Nazis, Winter"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Armenia"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Notably, as late as 2087, people of Russian descent could be found in the United States wasteland."@en . . "1946"^^ . . . . "8650000"^^ . . . . . . . . "Head of State"@en . "Tajikistan"@en . . . . "The Soviet Union came into being in the aftermath of World War I, which proved devestating to Russia. With morale at a low ebb, and with the blame focused on Tsar Nicholas II, the country collapsed, and the Tsar was forced to abdicate in 1917. The Bolsheviks, adherents of the philosophy of Karl Marx, saw their opportunity to wrest control of the country. After a period of revolution and civil war, the Bolsheviks took power and formed the world's first communist state. Though the Soviets, as Russia's successor state, had been forced to sign the severe Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to extricate themselves from war with Germany, the USSR spent the 1920s and '30s pursuing various aggressive policies against states which had attempted to secede from Russia when the Revolution began, and the country's"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "()"@en . . . . "Russian, many others"@en . . . . "1992-05-06"^^ . . . . . . . . . "123568"^^ . "\"Four legs good, Two legs bad\""@en . . . "Capital"@en . "Moscow"@en . "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"@en . . . . "Captain America: The First Avenger"@en . . . "The Soviet Union is a playable army featured in Company of Heroes: Eastern Front."@en . . "General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev"@en . . "The Soviet Union (in Murica just known as DEM FUCKING COMMIES!!; short USSR) is was a huge, purely communistic nation in East Europe and North Asia."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0301\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; IPA: [s\u0250\u02C8j\u0289s s\u0250'v\u02B2etsk\u02B2\u026Ax s\u0259t\u0361s\u0268\u0250l\u02B2\u026As't\u02B2it\u0361\u0255\u026Ask\u02B2\u026Ax r\u02B2\u026As\u02C8publ\u02B2\u026Ak] abbreviated to USSR (Russian:\u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420, tr. SSSR) and SU (Russian: \u0421\u0421, tr. SS) or shortened to the Soviet Union (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437, tr. Sovetskij Soyuz;IPA: [s\u0250'v\u02B2etsk\u02B2\u026Aj s\u0250\u02C8j\u0289s]), was a Stalinist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. It was governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.[7] A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized."@en . "no"@en . . . . . . "Ivan Silayev"@en . . . . . . . "World War I"@en . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR was the name of Russia from 30 December, 1922 to December 26, 1991"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Superpower"@en . . . . . . "The perfect system that is Communism"@en . "Flag of Kazakh SSR.svg"@en . . . "The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist country that existed in Eurasia from 1922 until 1991. In 1991, it was dissolved into 15 different countries. For more information on hockey in the Soviet Union, please see the article on Russia."@en . "Joseph Stalin"@en . "SUR"@en . "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"@en . . . . . . . "\u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A"@en . "The Soviet Union first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and competed at the Games on 18 occasions since then. At seven of its nine appearances at the Summer Olympic Games, the team ranked first in the total number of medals won, it was second by this count on the other two. Similarly, the team was ranked first in the medal count seven times and second twice in nine appearances at the Winter Olympic Games. Although the USSR ceased to exist on December 26, 1991, The Olympic Committee of the USSR formally existed until March 12, 1992, when it disbanded."@en . "1922"^^ . . "Flag of Tajik SSR.svg"@en . . "250"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union was the first nation to send an object into space. It was known as Sputnik, which was sent to bring communism to aliens. After that, they sent a monkey, then a man, then a city, then their country into space. They also were the first to harness nuclear power. Their methods to harness this immense power was by splitting and torturing baby atoms for science. They also created an atomic reactor to heat the atoms up to 8 billion degrees Fahrenheit, which outraged many atomic rights groups. They also had a scientist who made a bullshit table of elements. \n* First Object in Space \n* First man in space \n* First animal in space \n* First satellite in space \n* First table made out of all the elements \n* Lots of Physics Their secret was having a lot of people screaming ideas until they combined (math, laser, nuke) and then did all the fun science."@en . . . . . . "Ant-Man"@en . . . . . . . . . "yes"@en . . "The Soviet Union was a former Communist state occupying Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It consisted of fifteen member republics, the largest of which was Russia. The official religion of the Soviet Union was atheism. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia was formed by Russian Orthodox Christians fleeing persecution. The Soviet Union, along with China, was a leader in the worldwide Communist movement. Pope John Paul II took a stand against Communism."@en . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union, or U.S.S.R, was a grouping of countries which existed on Earth during the 20th century. Russia was part of the U.S.S.R. and, as such, the Russian language was extensively spoken by its peoples. Ukraine and Kazakhstan were also parts of the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: Thin Ice, 1963: The Space Race) East Germany also joined the Soviet Union following the seperation of Germany after the Second World War. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive)"@en . . . "Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, with Nikolai Yezhov.jpg"@en . . . . . . . . "47"^^ . "Eurasia"@en . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), commonly known as the Soviet Union was a country in Eastern Europe and Asia before the Great War."@en . . . . . "File:Internationale orchestral arrangement.ogg"@en . . . . "Moscow, Russian SFSR"@en . . . "Socialist single-party state"@en . . . . . "World War III"@en . "Soviet_Coat_of_Arms.png"@en . "293"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "300"^^ . . "Mikhail Gorbachev"@en . . . . . . "400000000"^^ . "FO1, FOT, FO3, FNV, FO4, FOX, TAR"@en . . "Vietnam War"@en . "Soviet Armed Forces"@en . . "Government type: Federal Semi-Presidential Republic According to the Constitution, the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics is a federal semi-presidential republic, wherein the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government. The bicameral Supreme Soviet, made up of the Soviet of Republics and the Soviet of the Union, acts as the legislative branch of the Union, with the power to adopt federal law, declare war, and approve treaties."@en . . . . . "Soviet Union or more formally the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the sucessor state to the territory of the former Romanov Dynasty's Czarist Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991."@en . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was reformed into Russian Federation. In the original timeline, Skynet launched a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Soviet then launched a nuclear attack in response to the, apparent, American assault.[citation needed]"@en . . . . . . . . . "--09-19"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Russian"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union (in Murica just known as DEM FUCKING COMMIES!!; short USSR) is was a huge, purely communistic nation in East Europe and North Asia."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Eastern Europe/Northern Asia"@en . . "The Soviet Union was the name givin to the the united countries it was made up of. They led the KGB and were the main enemies alongside the Blisk in Destroy All Humans! 2."@en . . . . . . . . "Soviet Union was a big country in the world, who existed between 1922-1991, and in 2007-2008 again. At 1900's, it was composed by 15 republics: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In 2007, after the annexation of Belarus by Russia, this one changed its name to Soviet Union again, but in the war to dominate Poland and the rest of the Europe, the russians were humiliated. Almost a hundred million people died for the soviet side, while Poland lost 100 men. The actual country that suceded Soviet Union is the fragile Russian Empire, who has support of Poland and the rest of Europe."@en . . . "Soviets"@en . . . . "-National Anthem of the USSR The United Soviet Socialist Republic or more commonly referred as The Soviet Union was founded in Revolution by the working class, led by Vladimir Lenin in the 1922. The belief that everyone was equal, and that the government should control everything was the main point of the Soviet Bloc, which spread to over 1/6th of the world's inhabitable land before falling in 1991."@en . . . . . "Soviet Union reverse.svg"@en . . . . "This page is a stub. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. A more informal name also used among its residents was the Union (Soyuz)."@en . . . . . . "The Glorious Revolution has always been, always is, and always shall be."@en . . . . . . . . . "Junior"@en . . . . . . . . "37"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "yush"@en . . . . "Communism"@en . "Soviet Armed Forces"@en . . "The obverse of the flag of the 1923-1991 former Soviet Union was red with a small golden stylized hammer and sickle symbol in the canton. The reverse was a plain red field."@en . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also called Soviet Union, was a socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. See also: Russia"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union) consisted of Russia and surrounding countries that today make up Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The USSR was founded in 1922 and cemented itself onto the world stage in 1924, 7 years after the Russian Revolution overthrew the monarchy of the Tsar in the October Revolution. The USSR would suffer the greatest casualties during WWII, by far. By the war's end it is estimated that 20 million to 30 million people were killed with exact numbers being hard to pinpoint, due to the massive amounts of casualties. Also many of the deaths were civilians with estimates of around 2/3 being civilians whether from execution, bombing, Nazi induced starvation, etc. The USSR was a member of the \"big three\" of the war with their leader being Joseph Stalin. Following the events of WWII the USSR and The United States would begin the conflict known as the Cold War. It was originally a Federation of Communist states but was dissolved in late 1991 shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall resulting in the end of the cold war with 15 new nations emerging from the chaos. The Commonwealth of Independent States was a somewhat unsuccessful effort by Russia to keep the former countries of the USSR together in an economic alliance post-dissolution."@en . . . . "1922"^^ . "Agent Carter"@en . . "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .svg"@en . "The Soviet Union (full name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) is one of the three main factions in World in Conflict and considered the main antagonist of the game. The Soviet Union was formed on December 30, 1922, and its power would rise to prominence into the late 1980s. The main power in the Soviet Union is Russia, with the other members contributing to its power. The Soviet Union is composed of fifteen republics, utilizing their resources to construct its large military."@en . . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A?\u00B7i, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437, Sovetskiy Soyuz. A soviet is a council, the theoretical basis for the socialist society of the USSR. Emerging from the Russian Empire following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War of 1918\u20131921, the USSR was a union of several Soviet republics, but the synecdoche Russia \u2014 after the Russian SFSR, its largest and most populous constituent state \u2014 continued to be commonly used throughout the country's existence. The geographic boundaries of the USSR varied with time, but after the last major territorial annexations of the Baltic states, eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and certain other territories during World War II, from 1945 until dissolution, the boundaries approximately corresponded to those of late Imperial Russia, with the notable exclusions of Poland, most of Finland, and Alaska. As the largest and oldest constitutionally communist state in existence, the Soviet Union became the primary model for future communist nations during the Cold War; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1945 until dissolution in 1991\u2014a period known as the Cold War \u2014 the Soviet Union and the United States of America were the two world superpowers that dominated the global agenda of economic policy, foreign affairs, military operations, cultural exchange, scientific advancements including the pioneering of space exploration, and sports (including the Olympic Games and various world championships). Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR grew to contain 15 constituent or \"union republics\" by 1956: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR and Uzbek SSR. (From annexation of the Estonian SSR on August 6, 1940 up to the reorganization of the Karelo-Finnish SSR into the Karelian ASSR on July 16, 1956, the count of \"union republics\" was 16.)"@en . . . . . . "State Emblem"@en . . . . "The Soviet Union also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), The acronym in Russian is \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A(\u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420), is traditionally considered to be the successor of the Russian Empire and of its short-lived successor Provisional Government under Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov and then Alexander Kerensky. The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, ruled until March, 1917 when the Empire was overthrown and a short-lived Russian provisional government took power, the latter to be overthrown in November 1917 by Vladimir Lenin. From 1917 to 1922, the predecessor to the Soviet Union was the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), which was an independent country as well as other Soviet republics at the time. The Soviet Union was officially established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties."@en . "The Soviet Union, also known as the U.S.S.R., was a Communist superpower that existed mostly in the area now occupied by Russia."@en . . . . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), commonly known as the Soviet Union was a country in Eastern Europe and Asia before the Great War."@en . . "1990"^^ . "1991"^^ . "Flag of the Byelorussian SSR .svg"@en . . . . . "Russia"@en . . . "The Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was a communist nation from the time of its' foundation until 1990. The government of the Soviet Union is well known for their contribution to space travel, as they were the first known nation to send a spacecraft into space."@en . . . . "Flag of the Soviet Union.svg"@en . . "Winter War"@en . "General Secretary"@en . . . "Byelorussian SSR"@en . "Vladimir Lenin"@en . . . . . . . "(Other names)"@en . . . . "The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist country that existed in Eurasia from 1922 until 1991. In 1991, it was dissolved into 15 different countries. For more information on hockey in the Soviet Union, please see the article on Russia."@en . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the USSR or the Soviet Union) consisted of Russia and surrounding countries that today make up Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The USSR was founded in 1922 and cemented itself onto the world stage in 1924, 7 years after the Russian Revolution overthrew the monarchy of the Tsar in the October Revolution. The USSR would suffer the greatest casualties during WWII, by far. By the war's end it is estimated that 20 million to 30 million people were killed with exact numbers being hard to pinpoint, due to the massive amounts of casualties. Also many of the deaths were civilians with estimates of around 2/3 being civilians whe"@en . . . . . . . "Notably, as late as 2087, people of Russian descent could be found in the United States wasteland."@en . . . . . "Premier of the Soviet Union"@en . . "The Soviet Union had its roots in the Russian Revolution of 1917, which deposed the imperial autocracy. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, then overthrew the Provisional Government. The Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic was established and the Russian Civil War began. The Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire and helped local communists seize power. In 1922, the Bolsheviks were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics. Following Lenin's death in 1924, a troika collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin committed the state ideology to Marxism\u2013Leninism and initiated a centrally planned economy. As a result"@en . "Flag of Lithuania 1989-2004.svg"@en . "The Soviet Union had its roots in the Russian Revolution of 1917, which deposed the imperial autocracy. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, then overthrew the Provisional Government. The Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic was established and the Russian Civil War began. The Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire and helped local communists seize power. In 1922, the Bolsheviks were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics. Following Lenin's death in 1924, a troika collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin committed the state ideology to Marxism\u2013Leninism and initiated a centrally planned economy. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialisation and collectivisation which laid the basis for its later war effort and dominance after World War II. However, Stalin repressed both Communist Party members and elements of the population through his authoritarian rule. During the first phase of World War II, the Soviet Union used the opportunity to acquire territories in Eastern Europe adjacent to Nazi Germany, its satellites, and their occupied territories. Later in 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history and violating an earlier non-aggression pact between the two countries. The Soviet Union suffered the largest loss of life in the war, but halted the Axis advance at intense battles such as that at Stalingrad, eventually driving through Eastern Europe and capturing Berlin in 1945. Having played a decisive role in the Allied victory in Europe, the Soviet Union established the Eastern Bloc in much of Central and Eastern Europe and emerged as one of the world's two superpowers after the war. Together with these new satellite states, through which the Soviet Union established economic and military pacts, it became involved in the Cold War, a prolonged ideological and political struggle against the Western Bloc, led by the other superpower, the United States. A de-Stalinization period followed Stalin's death, reducing the harshest aspects of society. The Soviet Union then went on to initiate significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including launching the first ever satellite and world's first human spaceflight, which led it into the Space Race. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis marked a period of extreme tension between the two superpowers, considered the closest to a mutual nuclear confrontation. In the 1970s, a relaxation of relations followed, but tensions resumed with Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The occupation drained economic resources and dragged on without achieving meaningful political results. In the late 1980s the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, also sought reforms in the Union, introducing the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation and democratize the government. However, this led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements. Central authorities initiated a referendum, boycotted by the Baltic republics and Georgia, which resulted in the majority of participating citizens voting in favour of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d'\u00E9tat was attempted by hardliners against Gorbachev, with the intention of reversing his policies. The coup failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a high-profile role in facing down the coup but resulted in the restoration of the Baltic states. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining 12 constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation, continuator state of the Russian SFSR, assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognised as its continued legal personality."@en . . . . . . . . . . "Dictatorship"@en . . . . . . . . "Flag of the Ukrainian SSR .svg"@en . . "The Soviet Union, U.S.S.R. (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) or C.C.C.P. (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A) was a nation that spanned Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is featured in all Call of Duty games set during World War II and the Black Ops series. The Soviet Union appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, which Gorod Krovi zombie map set in the Soviet Union."@en . . . . "The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a powerful, Communist-governed nation (1922-1991). During the Cold War, it was the United States's principal adversary and rival. Dr. Manhattan played a crucial role in maintaining deterrence so that a deadly conflict would not break out between the countries. When Dr. Manhattan leaves for Mars in late 1986, deterrence breaks down, and the Soviet Union, emboldened, invades Afghanistan (something which happened in our world in 1979). A global nuclear war looms which is only averted when the contending powers come to believe that the Earth is threatened by aliens, thanks to Ozymandias's ambitious hoax. By the end of Watchmen, an accord between the United States and the Soviet Union has considerably reduced tensions, and created hopes for a lasting peace. Rorschach's journal, if published and believed, would threaten the accord and perhaps lead to renewed hostilities."@en . . . . . . . . . "Marxist\u2013Leninist single-party state"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ivan Silayev"@en . . . . . "Flag of Ukraine.svg"@en . . . . . . . . . "Soviet ruble"@en . . "The Soviet Union is a nation-state on the planet Earth. It is considered to be one of the world's two \"superpowers\", along with its rival, the United States of America. Its capital city is Moscow, home of the Kremlin. See also: Russia"@en . . . . . . . "1922-12-30"^^ . . "Hymn of the Soviet Union"@en . . . . . . "Flag of Transcaucasian SFSR.svg"@en . . . . . "\"\""@en . . . . "\u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik"@en . . . . . . . . "Soviet Union or more formally the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the sucessor state to the territory of the former Romanov Dynasty's Czarist Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991."@en . . . "Flag of Uzbekistan.svg"@en . . "The Soviet Union was a nation-state on the planet Earth. It was considered to be one of the world's two \"superpowers,\" along with its rival, the United States of America. Its capital city was Moscow, home of the Kremlin. In the late 1980s the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought reforms in the Union, introducing the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation and democratize the government. However, this led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements. By 1991, the country was in turmoil as the Baltic republics began to secede. A referendum resulted in the vast majority of participating citizens voting in favor of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d'\u00E9tat was attempted by hardliners against Gorbachev, with the intention of reversing his moderate policies. The coup failed and instead hastened the country's collapse, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a high-profile role in facing down the coup. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Soviet Union was dissolved into 15 post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation, successor of the Russian SFSR, assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality. See also: Russia"@en . . . . "Head of Government"@en . . . . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics () abbreviated to USSR () and SU () or shortened to the Soviet Union (), was a Marxist\u2013Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. It was governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union had its roots in the Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Russian Empire. The Bolsheviks, the majority faction of the Social Democratic Labour Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, then led a second revolution which overthrew the provisional government and established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (renamed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1936), beginning a civil war between pro-revolution Reds and counter-revolution Whites. The Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire, and helped local Communists take power through soviets that nominally acted on behalf of workers and peasants. In 1922, the Communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian republics. Following Lenin's death in 1924, a troika collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin suppressed political opposition to him, committed the state ideology to Marxism\u2013Leninism (which he created) and initiated a centrally planned economy. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialisation and collectivisation which laid the basis for its later war effort and dominance after World War II. However, Stalin established political paranoia, and introduced arbitrary arrests on a massive scale after which authorities transferred many people (military leaders, Communist Party members, ordinary citizens alike) to correctional labour camps or sentenced them to execution. In the beginning of World War II, after the United Kingdom and France rejected an alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R. signed a non-aggression pact with Germany; the treaty delayed confrontation between the two countries, but was disregarded in 1941 when the Nazis invaded, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of combat in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the cost of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad. Soviet forces eventually drove through Eastern Europe and captured Berlin in 1945, inflicting the vast majority of German losses. Soviet occupied territory conquered from Axis forces in Central and Eastern Europe became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. Ideological and political differences with Western Bloc counterparts directed by the United States led to the forming of economic and military pacts, culminating in the prolonged Cold War. Following Stalin's death in 1953, a period of moderate social and economic liberalization (known as \"de-Stalinization\") occurred under the administration of Nikita Khrushchev. The Soviet Union then went on to initiate significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including launching the first ever satellite and world's first human spaceflight, which led it into the Space Race. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis marked a period of extreme tension between the two superpowers, considered the closest to a mutual nuclear confrontation. In the 1970s, a relaxation of relations followed, but tensions resumed when the Soviet Union began providing military assistance in Afghanistan at the request of its new socialist government in 1979. The campaign drained economic resources and dragged on without achieving meaningful political results. In the late 1980s the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform the Union and move it in the direction of Nordic-style social democracy, introducing the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation and democratize the government. However, this led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements. Central authorities initiated a referendum, boycotted by the Baltic republics, Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova, which resulted in the majority of participating citizens voting in favour of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d'\u00E9tat was attempted by hardliners against Gorbachev, with the intention of reversing his policies. The coup failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a high-profile role in facing down the coup, resulting in the banning of the Communist Party. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognised as its continued legal personality."@en . . . . . "Mikhail Gorbachev"@en . . . . "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"@en . . "Russian"@en . . "The Soviet Union or U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), now Russia, is the most used country for the antagonists in past Bond movies. James Bond visited the Soviet Union several times, and know both foes and friends there. He is shown to be in Siberia at the start of A View to a Kill before he escapes on a submarine. In GoldenEye, Bond travels there to meet a CIA agent Jack Wade know to have a Rose tattoo. Bond also meets Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky an ex-KGB agent, who set a meeting up with Alec Trevelyan known in Russia as \"Janus\"."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Flag of Latvia.svg"@en . "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"@en . . . . "Soviet Union"@en . . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR was the name of Russia from 30 December, 1922 to December 26, 1991"@en . "Soviet War in Afghanistan"@en . . . . "Kazakhstan"@en . . . "The Union of Soviet Socials Republics (aka Soviet Union or USSR or CCCP or informally as Russia) is the worlds largest country extending from the European Continent in the east to the Asian Continent in the west. It is bordered by several different countries including Finland, Norway and several others. The Soviet Union was the primary country promoting communism during the Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s. The Soviet Union was sending missiles to the island nation of Cuba in 1962 which resulted in a stand off with the United States over the Cuban Missile Crisis."@en . "of the"@en . . "The Soviet Union (full name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) is one of the three main factions in World in Conflict and considered the main antagonist of the game. The Soviet Union was formed on December 30, 1922, and its power would rise to prominence into the late 1980s. The main power in the Soviet Union is Russia, with the other members contributing to its power. The Soviet Union is composed of fifteen republics, utilizing their resources to construct its large military."@en . . . . . . . . . "Location_of_the_Soviet_Union_.png"@en . . . . . . "The Soviet Union came into being in the aftermath of World War I, which proved devestating to Russia. With morale at a low ebb, and with the blame focused on Tsar Nicholas II, the country collapsed, and the Tsar was forced to abdicate in 1917. The Bolsheviks, adherents of the philosophy of Karl Marx, saw their opportunity to wrest control of the country. After a period of revolution and civil war, the Bolsheviks took power and formed the world's first communist state. Though the Soviets, as Russia's successor state, had been forced to sign the severe Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to extricate themselves from war with Germany, the USSR spent the 1920s and '30s pursuing various aggressive policies against states which had attempted to secede from Russia when the Revolution began, and the country's borders soon incorporated much of the old Russian Empire's. In 1939, the Soviets publicly signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, though in all likelihood neither Hitler nor Stalin ever took seriously their obligations not to attack one another if a sufficiently advantageous situation arose. At the same time they signed this pact, they reached a second, secret agreement to cooperate in the conquest of Poland. Then, while World War II raged in Western and Central Europe, the USSR relatively quietly waged a series of wars against Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, and Japan. In 1941 Germany violated the non-aggression pact and drew the Soviet Union into World War II. For the duration of the war, the USSR was the most important member of the Allied Forces. At the cost of tens of millions of casualties, they took the lead in the Allied conquest of Germany, and extended the western border of their sphere of influence all the way to the Elbe River. They emerged from the war with their own sovereign territory expanded to the largest dimensions in Russian history, with vassal governments in most Eastern European states, and with extended influence in East Asia, including the northern half of the Korean peninsula, and in world diplomatic affairs. From 1945 to 1991, the USSR was locked in a Cold War with the world's other superpower, the United States. Their conflict became systemic and found many expressions, including diplomatic disputes, economic warfare, endless proxy wars throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and a nuclear arms race that prevented the two from being able to fight a war directly. The two sides remained pretty evenly matched throughout the second half of the twentieth century, with circumstances favoring now the one, now the other. But in the 1980s, the USSR suffered, in short succession, a humiliating military defeat in Afghanistan, restlessness and nationalism within many of its vassal states, domestic turmoil around political and economic reform, and an ever-widening economic gap with the far more efficient American bloc. On 25 December 1991, Boris Yeltsin, now claiming the title of President of the Russian Federation, informed the United Nations that the USSR was defunct. The next day, General Secretary Gorbachev verified his claim and formally dissolved the Soviet Union into 17 successor states. The Cold War was over, and with it, Soviet history."@en . . . . . . "\"National Anthem of the Soviet Union\""@en . "Azerbaijan"@en . . "-47.0"^^ . . . . "Fearless Leader"@en . . . . . . . "1922"^^ . . . "Korean War"@en . . . . "Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png"@en . "Flag of Armenia.svg"@en . . . . . . "The Soviet Union was a communist nation and was involved, with the United States, in the Cold War. Russia, Belamisk, and Kazakhstan were both located in the Soviet Union. (TXF: \"The Pine Bluff Variant\"; \"Patient X\"; TLG: \"Bond, Jimmy Bond\") The Soviet Union kept one of the last remaining storage of the Smallpox virus. (TXF: \"Terma\") According to Melvin Frohike, the Cigarette Smoking Man's father worked as a spy for the Soviet Union. He kept the Soviets informed on the United States' plans to enter World War II. (TXF: \"Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man\")"@en . "Joseph Stalin"@en . . . . . . . . "National Anthem of the Soviet Union"@en . . . "37"^^ . . "Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic"@en . . . . . . . . . "The Op-Yop was a toy marketed in the 1960's by a company based in Royal Oak, Michigan called Kramer Designs. The company's original location was an office on Adams in the neighboring community of Birmingham. The history we could find was based on a Time Magazine article in 1968 where it was stated that a million of the Op-Yops had been sold and another million were expected to sell by Christmas. In my travels, I have found some additional information including an internal memo relating to some six months worth of advertising that was done on the Soupy Sales Show with Soupy doing the commercials shot in Detroit. There were also memo's to retailers advising them to stock up on the toy to be in sync with the Soupy Sales ads. I tracked down the original molder who made the parts and talked to some home workers who assembled them at their homes from 1967 through 1968. The toy was labeled as a psychedelic sensation and was skin packaged on 4-1/4 inch by 14 inch printed chipboard. More can be found out about the recent reincarnation of the op-yop at WWW.op-yop.com"@en . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics () abbreviated to USSR () or shortened to the Soviet Union (), was a Marxist\u2013Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a single-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. The Soviet Union had its roots in 1917 when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, led the October Revolution which overthrew the provisional government that had replaced the Tsar. They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (renamed Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1936), beginning a civil war between pro-revolution Reds and counter-revolution Whites. The Red Army entered several territories of the former Russian Empire and helped local Communists take power through soviets, which nominally acted on behalf of workers and peasants. In 1922, the Communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian republics. Following Lenin's death in 1924, a troika and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin suppressed political opposition to him, committed the state ideology to Marxism\u2013Leninism (which he created) and initiated a centrally planned economy. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization which laid the foundation for its victory in World War II and post-war dominance. Stalin also fomented political paranoia, and conducted the Great Purge to remove opponents of his from the Communist Party through the mass arbitrary arrest of many people (military leaders, Communist Party members, and ordinary citizens alike) who were then sent to correctional labour camps or sentenced to death. In the beginning of World War II, Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler's Germany; the treaty delayed confrontation between the two countries. In June 1941 the Germans invaded, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the cost of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at intense battles such as Stalingrad. Soviet forces eventually captured Berlin in 1945. The territory overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged in 1947 as the Soviet bloc formed the Warsaw Pact and confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. However the USSR did not itself engage in any so-called \"hot wars.\" Following Stalin's death in 1953, a period of political and economic liberalization, known as \"de-Stalinization\" and \"Khrushchev's Thaw\", occurred under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. The country grew rapidly, as millions of peasants were moved into industrialized cities. The Space Race heated up, and the USSR took an early lead with the first ever satellite and world's first human spaceflight. In the 1970s, there was, briefly, a d\u00E9tente of relations with the United States, but tensions resumed when the Soviet Union deployed troops in Afghanistan in 1979. The war drained economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to Mujahideen fighters. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to further reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of glasnost and perestroika. The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing economic stagnation. The Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes. This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well. Central authorities initiated a referendum\u2014boycotted by the Baltic republics, Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova\u2014which resulted in the majority of participating citizens voting in favor of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d'\u00E9tat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners. It failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a high-profile role in facing down the coup, resulting in the banning of the Communist Party. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality."@en . . . . . . "1988"^^ . . . "Flag of Estonia.svg"@en . . . . "--12-30"^^ . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was a communist nation from the time of its' foundation until 1990. The government of the Soviet Union is well known for their contribution to space travel, as they were the first known nation to send a spacecraft into space."@en . . "Victory Day"@en . "Flag of Georgia .svg"@en . . "General Premier"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "1923-11-12"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Vladimir Lenin"@en . . "Ukraine"@en . "(\u0421\u043E\u044E\u0301\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0301\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0301\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A)"@en . "Flag of the Soviet Union."@en . . . . . . . . . "The Soviet Union is a nation-state on the planet Earth. It is considered to be one of the world's two \"superpowers\", along with its rival, the United States of America. Its capital city is Moscow, home of the Kremlin. See also: Russia"@en . . . . . . . . . "Iron Man 2"@en . . "The Union of Soviet Socials Republics (aka Soviet Union or USSR or CCCP or informally as Russia) is the worlds largest country extending from the European Continent in the east to the Asian Continent in the west. It is bordered by several different countries including Finland, Norway and several others. The Soviet Union was the primary country promoting communism during the Cold War of the 1950s and 1960s. The Soviet Union was sending missiles to the island nation of Cuba in 1962 which resulted in a stand off with the United States over the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mr. Jones commented that the defection of Dr. Schenker to the west would be a mighty blow to the Soviets. H.A.R.M. attempted to entangle the Soviet Union into Project Omega, which could cause the cold war with the United States to turn hot. The AK-47 was developed in the Soviet Union. CCCP Soda was one of the products of the Soviet Union that was exported into other communist countries such as East Germany. The Soviet Union would run a research station on the continent of Antarctica called Russkaya."@en . . . "160"^^ . . . . . . . . . "1991"^^ . . "The Soviet Union, U.S.S.R. (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) or C.C.C.P. (Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A) was a nation that spanned Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is featured in all Call of Duty games set during World War II and the Black Ops series. The Soviet Union appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, which Gorod Krovi zombie map set in the Soviet Union. As a major participant in World War II, the Soviet Union is home to many characters and events in the Call of Duty series. Most games, but not all, in the Call of Duty series has at least one playable Soviet character. There are a total of 55 Soviet/Russian characters in the Call of Duty series."@en . . . . . . . . . . "Ukrainian SSR"@en . . "Numerous regional languages"@en . . . . . "English: Workers of the world, unite!"@en . . . . . . . . "Georgia Georgia"@en . . . . . "22276060"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Transcaucasian SFSR"@en . "293047571"^^ . . . "!0Russia-map.png"@en . . "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the Russian: \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437 \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043E\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043F\u0443\u0431\u043B\u0438\u043A?\u00B7i, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from \u0421\u043E\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u043E\u044E\u0437, Sovetskiy Soyuz. A soviet is a council, the theoretical basis for the socialist society of the USSR."@en . . . . "55"^^ . . . . . . . "--12-26"^^ . "Mikhail Gorbachev"@en . . "Comrade Lenin, Comrade Trotsky, Comrade Stalin, Comrade Putin, Comrade Medvedev, Karl Marx, Niko Bellic"@en . . . . . . . "Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic"@en . . "See also: Russia"@en . "The Red Revolution (Revolution of October 1917) caused the downfall of the Russian Empire Following the Russian Revolution, there was a struggle between the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the anti-communist White movement. In December 1922, the Bolsheviks won the civil war, and the Soviet Union was formed with the merger of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Following World War II, the USSR and its Communist allies would engage in the Cold War with the United States and its Western Allies In the Full Metal Panic universe, the history of the Soviet Union is the same till the point of the 1980s and 1990s, Mikhail Gorbechov's Glasnost and Perestroika reforms are put to a complete halt when he is assassinated and preventing the dissilusion of the Soviet Union in 1991 from there The Soviet Union, successful in fielding the Rk-91 Savage, would succeed in winning the Second Afghan War and not suffer the trauma as in the real world. While the USSR and US are still engaged in a Cold War with one another, They seem to agree on specific topics toward a move for peace, an example of this is both Governments supporting the reunion of Northern and Southern China, as explained by Melissa Mao while the Urzu Team is in Nanjing (TSR EP: 03)"@en . "The Soviet Union was a nation-state on the planet Earth. It was considered to be one of the world's two \"superpowers,\" along with its rival, the United States of America. Its capital city was Moscow, home of the Kremlin. See also: Russia"@en . . . . "Vladimir Ivashko"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Mikhail Kalinin"@en . "1"^^ . . . . . . "The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, 1922"@en . . .