Soviet Union (Differently)

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or simply Soviet Union, was a vast socialist federation in Eurasia and North America that existed from 1922 until its dissolution in 1975. It was a union of 15 Soviet republics, the biggest and most important of them being Russia.

The USSR bordered Finland to the northeast, Poland, Austria-Hungary and Romania to the east, West Persia and East Persia to the southeast, China and Mongolia to the southeast and Canada to the east. It was bounded by numerous bodies of water, including the Baltic Sea, the Arctic Sea, the the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and the North Pacific.