Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

"You're bringing West Germany into your NATO, rearming him, hypocrite! But maybe… I'll form my own team."

-Soviet Union, "Who Started the Cold War?"

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union or the USSR, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, and the third-most populous country. It had the world's second-largest economy and largest standing military, and wielded the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. It was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. It was a founding member of the United Nations as well as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and one of the world's two superpowers before its dissolution.

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик

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1922-1991

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Anthem:

"The Internationale" (1922-1944)

"State Anthem of the Soviet Union" (1944–1991)

General information

Capital and largest city: Moscow

National language: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Latvian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Armenian, Turkmen and Estonian

Date of establishment: December 30, 1922

Date of dissolution: December 26, 1991

Currency: Soviet ruble

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Statistics

Area: 22,402,220 km²

Population: 286,730,819 (1989)

GDP: $2.7 trillion (1990)

GDP per capita: $9,000 (1990)

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History

Predecessors: Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, and the Transcaucasian SFSR

Successors: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Russia and Kazakhstan

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