Soviet Union (German Heritage)

For the Democratic State that occupies European Russia, see Russia.

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (Russian) Timeline: German Heritage
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem:  State Anthem of the Soviet Union
File:Soviet Union (German Heritage).png Location of USSR
Capital		Novosibirsk
Largest city		Novosibirsk
Official languages		See Languages
Religion		State Atheism
Demonym		Soviet
Government		Federal Marxist–Leninist socialist republic
-	General Secretary	Vitaly Verkeenko (CPFE)
-	Premier	Nursultan Nazarbayev (CPKZ)
Legislature		Supreme Soviet
Population
-	2016 estimate	100,000,000
Currency		Ruble (SUR)
Date formats		dd.mm.yyyy
Drives on the		right
Internet TLD		.su

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), is a Socialist State located in Northern and Central Asia. The USSR borders the Russian Democratic Republic, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, the PRC, Korea and Japan. It also shares maritime borders with the United States across the Bering Strait.

Since 1948, the Soviet Union has generally been governed by collective leadership - a group consisting of the Party General Secretary, the Soviet Premier and the Chairman of the Presidium. This type of leadership is intended to prevent the cult of personality associated with the rule of Joseph Stalin, who was deposed in 1948 by a coup’d’etat. While the the cult of Stalinism has since been disowned, many aspects of his rule has been incorporated into the administration - the media is strictly controlled by the state, and the activity of citizens are highly supervised by the Committee for State Security (KGB).

The country is a one-party state, governed by the various Communist Party branches with Novosibirsk as its capital in its largest republic, the Siberian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Siberian SFSR). The USSR is comprised of 11 “Union Republics”, which are controlled by their respective Soviet Councils. However, the main power of the Soviet Union is in the Supreme Soviet, which creates a reasonably centralised state.

History

Joseph Stalin (1878-1949), the dictator of the Soviet Union from the 1920s until the coup’d’tat of 1948.

In the last year of his rule (1948), Joseph Stalin became increasingly erratic and paranoid of his surrounding ministers and doctors. The USSR became increasingly anti-Semitic and an “Anti-cosmopolitan campaign” began against the Jews, who were labelled as “Rootless cosmopolitans” - as traitors to communism and nationalism. In 1947, Stalin authorised “Operation Eastwind”, which was intended to transport all Soviet Jews to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in order to reduce the influence of the Jews in Soviet communities.

List of Union Republics

Flag	Name	Current First-Secretary	Current Premier	Capital
	Far East (Дальний Восток)	Roman Kobyzov	Roman Kopin	Vladivostok
	Siberia (Сиби́рь)	Anatoly Lokot	Andrey Travnikov	Omsk
	Yakutia (Якутия)	Yegor Borisov	Aysen Nikolaev	Yakutsk
	Tuva (Тува́)	Sherig-ool Oorzhak	Sholban Kara-ool	Kyzyl
	Buryatia (Буря́тия)	Vyacheslav Markhayev	Leonid Potapov	Ulan-Ude
	Khakassia (Хака́сия)	Yevgeny Smirnov	Valentin Konovalov	Abakan