USSR - ΕΣΣΔ

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USSR

Location

Fast Data
Capital city	Moscow
State	Federal One-Party Communist State
Coin	Soviet Ruble

Population	300.047.571
Language	Russian
Religion	Orthodox Christianity


Internet TLD	.su
Time zone	from 2 to 12

THE Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик), abbreviated to Ε.Σ.Σ.Δ. (Russian: СССР is pronounced according to DFA: [ˈɛs ɛs ɛs ˈɛr]), and more commonly the Soviet Union (Советский Союз), was a state located in East Europe and North Asia, the largest in the world. Its capital was Moscow. It was the first socialist state in world history. It was founded in 1922. It was dissolved in 1991. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was, under Article 6 of the 1977 USSR Constitution, the guiding and nucleus of Soviet Society. Following its dissolution in 1991, the USSR was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Areas

The last constitution of the Soviet Union provided that the country consisted of 15 Union Soviet Republics:

Each democracy had its own constitution, flag, national anthem and coat of arms. Some even (Ukraine and Belarus) also enjoyed a position in the UN as sovereign republics and as entities had elements of international law.