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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [t] (USSR), [u] commonly known as the Soviet Union, [v] 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 country .
At this point, 12 of the 15 former Soviet Republics participated in the CIS, the three non-participants being the Baltic states, which were occupied by the Soviet Union. The CIS and Soviet Union also legally co-existed briefly with each other until 26 December 1991, when the Soviet of the Republics formally dissolved the Soviet Union. This was ...
"Soviet" is derived from a Russian word meaning council, assembly, advice, harmony, or concord, [trans 1] and all ultimately deriving from the Proto-Slavic verbal stem of *vět-iti "to inform", related to the Slavic "věst" ("news"), English "wise", the root in "ad-vis-or" (which came to English through French), or the Dutch "weten" ('to know'; cf. "wetenschap" 'science').
The Soviet Union played a crucial role in the Allied victory in World War II, but at a tremendous human cost, with millions of Soviet citizens perishing in the conflict. The Soviet Union emerged as one of the world's two superpowers, leading the Eastern Bloc in opposition to the Western Bloc during the Cold War.
Hindi Rusi Bhai Bhai (Hindi: हिंदी रूसी भाई भाई — "Indians and Russians are brothers") is a political slogan used in India from the 1950s to the 1980s [1] [2] [3] that was officially advocated in India and the Soviet Union. It was declared by Nikita Khrushchev at a meeting in Bangalore on November 26, 1955. [4]
The "URSS"'s (USSR's) Tupolev ANT-25 N025 in flightURSS is an alternative spelling of USSR.In other languages, it stands for Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas (), Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques (), Unyon ng mga Republikang Sosyalistang Sobyet (), Uni Republik Sosialis Soviet (), Unione delle Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche (), União das Repúblicas Socialistas ...
The Soviet Union, which had annexed the Baltic states and territories from Finland and from Romania amid the war, established Soviet-aligned states in Central and Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as global superpowers, and entered a period of tension known as the Cold War.
The first socialist state was the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, established in 1917. [27] In 1922, it merged with the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic into a single federal union called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...