soviet union

     

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviate USSR, Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, СССР (help·info); tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR), also called the Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз; tr.: Sovetsky Soyuz), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

Trivia about soviet union

  • While U.S. is #2 petroleum producer in the world, this country produces the most
  • By the mid-1950s this country had about 375 subs in various oceans & seas
  • The flag seen here is of this nation that no longer exists:(hammer & sickle)
  • When this country held elections in March, 3 cosmonauts voted by radio from space
  • On March 26, 1989 the people of this country voted in their freest elections since 1917
  • The Freedom Support Act of 1992 allocated about $16 billion to aid the nations formed when this entity collapsed
  • In 1985 Ronald Reagan said that this nation "has conducted the greatest military buildup in the history of man"
  • In 1965, Romania's new constitution stressed its full independence while earlier ones praised this country
  • With the U.S. boycotting the summer games, this host country won 197 medals
  • It was ollie, ollie, oxen free for Kazakhstan from this union in 1991
  • Country which had the 1st woman to walk in space
  • Uzbekistan & Tadzhikistan are predominantly Muslim republics of this country
  • The 1956 Olympics featured a bloody water polo match between Hungary & this invader
  • Deployed in 1955, the MiG-19 was this nation's first supersonic jet fighter
  • This country leads the world in production of potatoes
  • The 1987 miniseries "Amerika" was set in 1997 with the U.S. taken over by this foe--didn't work out that way
  • In December 1946 this country rejected the USA's Baruch Plan for international control of atomic energy
  • In the 1940s some Kurds formed the short-lived Mahabad Republic with this Communist country's help
  • Hats like the one seen here were once worn by troops of this nation that no longer exists
  • Rudolf Nureyev
  • Wilson, Harding, Coolidge & Hoover refused to recognize this country's government, but FDR did
  • The Germans' summer offensive of 1942 in this country was driven in part by a need to gain oil supplies from the Caucasus
  • 1972:Men's Basketball
  • In August 1939 Germany & this country secretly agreed to divide Poland
  • In 1978 the first Pole in space, Miroslaw Hermaszewski, was launched on one of this nation's spacecrafts
  • Country which, by far, suffered the most casualties in WWII
  • The largest farms, some over 60,000 acres, are the state farms in this country
  • Between 1961 & 1983, this nation sent numerous Venera probes to Venus to study its atmosphere & chemical makeup
  • During WWII Finland fought this country in 2 separate wars, the Winter & the Continuation
  • This country's big bomber of the 1950s was the TU-95 Bear
  • Armenia declared its independence from this collapsing entity Sept. 23, 1991
  • Old name for Russia & 14 other republics until 1991:The ____ Union
  • In 1939 Poland was divided almost equally between Germany & this country
  • The term "second world" refers to this nation & its nearby allies
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS.) In 1945 Eisenhower became the only American ever to be awarded this nation's Order of Victory
  • Wassily Kandinsky, a founder of abstract art, left this country when it turned toward socialist realism
  • Of the men's Chess Olympiad, 18 out of 20 times from 1952 to 1990--why did we break up a good thing?
  • With over 20 million, this country had more casualties during World War II than any other

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