Soviet Union (Greater Cold War)

The Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics (: Союз суверенных советских республик Soyuz suverennykh sovetskikh republic), often known as the Soviet Union (Советский Союз, Sovyetskiy Soyuz), and abbreviated as the USSR (СССР, SSSR); is a sovereign state located in Eurasia. A federal republic comprised of 14 republics, the Soviet Union is the largest country in the world and is the first communist state to be established. The Soviet Union was established in 1922 after the Red Army won the and established a communist state in the territories of the former Russian Empire and quickly industrialized at a rapid period bringing it into the 20th century.

The Soviet Union was initially fighting with Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 during the German invasion of Poland, but the country sided with the Allied Powers following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 in on the Eastern Front and lead to the country suffering the heaviest casualties of the entire war. Despite the heavy losses however, the Soviets prevailed and played a decisive role in the Allied victory in the war with the Soviet victory at Stalingrad and later in Berlin by 1945. The war saw the emergence of the Soviet Union as one of the two major superpowers alongside the United States and the two entered into the Cold War by 1947.

The Cold War saw the spread of communism and Soviet influence worldwide from Eastern and Central Europe to Asia and the United States was determined to stop the spread of communism by any means necessary. By the 1960s, the Soviet Union's  was the best of the world following the launches of  in 1957 and the flight of  in 1961 and later the landing of  on the moon in 1969. From the 1970s to the mid 1980s, the Soviet Union increased its influence on the world stage, but suffered major economic, political and social issues back at home by 1985 and later suffered a series of revolutions in 1989 culminating in social unrest back at home. By August of 1991, the New Union Treaty was signed and the USSR was reformed. From the 1990s to today, the Soviet Union has reemerged as one of the dominate players on the world stage and has been the source of major technological, cultural, and artistic developments and advancements.