Soviet Union
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| Capital | Moscow |
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| Founded | December 30 |
| 1922 | |
| Area | 224 |
| Population | 293 million (Jul 1991) |
| Date dissolved | December 26, 1991 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 857950 |
About Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.
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... Other Nato countries are considering sending planes such as the MiG-29 - a model which dates from the time of the Soviet Union - which Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly...
Women Photograph: Pictures from female and non-binary storytellers
... I was born in today s Kyrgyzstan when it was part of the Soviet Union and immigrated to Germany in 1988 as a nine-year-old girl...
Why Russia's invasion of Ukraine still divides Africa
... Why ties to Russia are strong in some parts AfricaSome African countries had a decades-long relationship with the Soviet Union...
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... Decades ago, Beijing s network of underground fallout shelters were designed to protect the citizens of the Chinese capital from a nuclear war with the Soviet Union...
US diplomat on what it's like negotiating with Putin
... This is part of a vision that President Putin has outlined to re-gather the Russian peoples that were separated by the collapse of the Soviet Union...
Ukraine war: President Putin speech fact-checked
... When it was part of the former Soviet Union, nuclear weapons were based in Ukraine, but in 1994 Ukraine signed up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and gave them up, in return for security guarantees...
Ukraine war: How the conflict is creating family rifts in Russia
... Their children were mostly against the war, and their parents - the generation brought up during the Soviet Union, who watched [state-run] TV day and night - supported the war...
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