Kazakhstan (Alternity)

The Soviet Union (officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR) is a now-defunct constitutional socialist state that comprised much of Eurasia from the end of Russia's civil war in 1922, until 1991 (6 years ago), when Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms of glasnost and perestroika failed, and after multiple revolutions of Warsaw Pact Eastern European nations (Baltica, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and East Germany) two years previous, the state was officially dissolved Christmas Day, 1991.