The Soviet Union or USSR (1922–1991) was a socialist state in Eurasia. After the 1924 death of founding leader Lenin (who led the October Revolution in 1917), Stalin established a planned economy and suppressed political opposition.

Dec 29, 2015 · Double click on the map and you will see the administrative boundaries within Soviet Union. They are shown like this ----- and these are the boundaries between the "Soviet republics" as of 1939. So if the question is how much of the Russian Federation (in the boundaries of 1939) the Germans occupied, the answer is also clear from the map.

@TylerDurden, Moscow was the most strategic city in the Soviet Union. It was the primary supply depo for the Soviet Army, the primary transportation (rail and road) hub of the entire country. If the Germans had taken Moscow in Oct-Dec of 1941 The Soviet Union's logistically would have faced a significantly harder war.

Feb 9, 2024 · Soviet citizen had to apply to the Soviet tourist agency and travel with a group of soviet toursists. Also some companies, like big factories, organized such group travel - then worker had to apply to company's department which distributed subsidised trips to factory-owned or state-owned holiday houses, resorts, etc. (usually this was local ...

May 22, 2012 · I've been looking at the history of the USSR and while the secret police were fairly straightforward under the Tsarist regime and the USSR under Lenin (Okhrana and the Cheka), for Stalin's rule of ...

Criminalisation of homosexuality during this time was exclusive to nations of the Soviet Union associated with "cultural backwardness." The Wikipedia article really only considers the legal situation, apart from the unsourced statement openly gay persons were able to serve in Russia's new Soviet government.

Oct 9, 2015 · Although Soviet law (e.g. Article 21 of the 1978 Law on Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) requires that the lists of electors be made public 20 days prior to election day, the number of registered voters is not revealed until after the election.

However, the only reason I didn't add that originally was because I was pointing out how the Russian perspective of the Great Game helped to influence the brutality of Stalin and the Soviet regime. From the Russian perspective, their attempts to exert power over Central Asia were a counter measure to protect against Britain's attempts to ...

Russia was only ONE of the Federations (similar to states in the U.S.) of Soviet Union not the parent country. If you look at the precedence from all the other countries that have split up, whichever country gets out from the parent country umbrella has to reapply for even the "general" UN Membership let alone be admitted to the Security ...

Sep 25, 2023 · The Mercur I class of ships built in East Germany for the Soviet Union were produced from 1975 to 1978 and were intended to transport up to 840 twenty foot container equivalents (TEU). They were followed by the larger Mercur II class in the early 1980s. For container usage outside of container ships see e.g. this picture from East Berlin in 1976.