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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [1] is a state that existed from 1922 to 1991 in Europe and Asia. The USSR occupied 1/6 of the inhabited land and was the largest country in the world on the territory occupied by the Russian Empire without Finland, part of the Polish Kingdom and some other territories (Kars, now Turkey) by 1917, but with Galicia, Transcarpathian , part of Prussia, Northern Bukovina, South Sakhalin and Kuriles.

According to the Constitution of 1977, the USSR was proclaimed a single union multinational and socialist state.

After World War II, the USSR had land borders with Afghanistan, Hungary, Iran, China, the DPRK (since September 9, 1948), Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Finland, Czechoslovakia, and only sea with the United States, Sweden and Japan.

The USSR was created on December 30, 1922 by the unification of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the BSSR and the ZSFSR.

It consisted of the Union republics (in different years from 4 to 16), which according to the Constitution were sovereign states; each union republic retained the right of free exit from the Union. The Union Republic had the right to enter into relations with foreign states, conclude treaties with them and exchange diplomatic and consular representatives, to participate in the activities of international organizations. Among the 50 founding countries of the UN, along with the USSR, were its two allied republics: the BSSR and the Ukrainian SSR.

Part of the republics included autonomous Soviet socialist republics (ASSR), territories, regions, autonomous regions (AO), and autonomous (until 1977 - national) districts.

After World War II, the USSR, along with the United States, was a superpower. The Soviet Union dominated the world socialist system and was also a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

The collapse of the USSR was characterized by a sharp confrontation between representatives of the central federal government and the newly elected local authorities (Supreme Soviets, presidents of the Union republics). In 1989–1990, all republican Supreme Soviets adopted declarations on state sovereignty, some of which were declarations of independence. On March 17, 1991, in 9 out of 15 republics of the USSR, an All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR was held, in which two thirds of citizens were in favor of preserving the renewed union. But the central authorities failed to stabilize the situation. The failed coup d'état of the State Emergency Committee was followed by the official recognition of the independence of the Baltic republics. After the All-Ukrainian independence referendum, where the majority of the population spoke in favor of Ukraine’s independence, preserving the USSR as a state entity became virtually impossible, as stated in the Agreement on the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, signed on December 8, 1991 by the heads of the three Union republics - Yeltsin from the RSFSR (Russian Federation), Kravchuk from USSR (Ukraine) and Shushkevich from BSSR (Republic of Belarus). Officially, the USSR ceased to exist on December 26, 1991. In late 1991, the Russian Federation was recognized as a successor state of the USSR in international legal relations and took its place on the UN Security Council.

alexymca - Foreign Secretary.
iSeven - Minister of the Interior
polzowatel - Head of the Secretariat of the Central Committee
Johnny_P - Comrade Andropov
miroslav_mm - Pavlik Morozov
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a_black_ cat - Comrade Cat
11-1974 - Comrade Rudenko, Attorney General
katala97 - Komsomol
Aristarhas - Responsible for propaganda and ideology
Alessandro1991 - Commissar of Health.
I.V. Stalin Well, here without comments
dmrykov - The most important builder
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wandererbk - People's Commissar of the NKVD
Gabby - Minister of Energy and Electrification of the USSR (including Nuclear Energy!;)
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Shoking - Minister of Transport
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Dschinghis Khan - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
kuzen64 - Chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee
Skipper73 - Head of the Main Political Directorate (GlavPUR) of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union.
morbid_s- Commissar of Labor.
Apokaliptus Minister of Civil Defense and Emergencies

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Photo-video archive (documents, posters, postcards of the Soviet era)

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