Soviet Union (Yugoslav Empire)

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), commonly known as the Soviet Union (Советский Союз, Sovetsky Soyuz) and abbreviated as the USSR (СССР, SSSR), is a in. At 22,120,410 square kilometers (8,540,738 sq mi), the Soviet Union is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the third most populous, with about 304.5 million people as of 2018. It consists of 12 republics, with Moscow as the administrative capital of the federation. The country boasts the largest nuclear arsenal and second largest military force in the world, behind the. It is considered one of the world's two and leader of the.

The Soviet Union came into existence on 30 December 1922 after the under Soviet revolutionary, established as from the remnants of the old. After Lenin's death, the Soviet Union became a dictatorship under, who led the country through a series of that pushed the  and  of the nation's economy. The country played a key role in the defeat of in the, and afterwards the country became one of the world's two global superpowers, the other being the. The two superpowers would be engaged in an era of geopolitical tension known as the until it was declared over on 3 December 1989, when the  entered a period of collapse and

Administrative Divisions


The Soviet Union is a federation made up of 12 republics.


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