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The Soviet Union had the longest borders of any contemporary country, extending approx. 60,000 km (37,000 mi). [1] [2] They measured some 10,000 kilometers (6,213.7 mi) from Kaliningrad on Gdańsk Bay in the west to Ratmanova Island (Big Diomede Island) in the Bering Strait - the rough equivalent of the distance from Edinburgh, Scotland, westwards to Nome, Alaska.
English: World map in 1980, during the later stages of the Cold War. Español: Guerra Fria - Situación de la confrontación bipolar en 1980. Čeština: Mapa světa v r. 1980, na sklonku studené války.
English: A map showing the relations of the communist states after the Sino-Soviet split as of 1980. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and pro-Soviet communist states. The People's Republic of China (PRC) and pro-Chinese communist states.
The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, retaliating for the United States-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In September 1984, [19] the Soviet Union also prevented a visit to West Germany by East German leader Erich Honecker.
A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. It was a major ally during World War II, a main participant in the Cold War, and it grew in power to become one of the world's two superpowers ...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [r] (USSR), [s] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [t] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. . During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous co
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991) Ukraine. Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917–1918) Odessa Soviet Republic (1918) Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (1918) Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic (1919) Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (1920) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)
4 October – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1965–1980) (born 1918) 20 November – Avtandil Gogoberidze , football player (born 1922) 18 December – Alexei Kosygin , Premier of the Soviet Union (1964–1980) (born 1904)