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.

Oct 25, 2011 · The USA needed Soviet Union's support in the war against Japan. The Soviet Union agreed to enter the war three months after they defeated Germany but not without some concessions. One of the main reasons for the failure of the League of Nations was the fact that some countries weren't represented, especially the Soviet Union. Having the Soviet ...

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 ...

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@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.

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.

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.

Apr 16, 2021 · Stalin’s liquidation of experienced military leadership during this purge was one of the major factors contributing to the poor performance of Soviet forces in the initial phase of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941." Great Purge; In the 1930’s PU-36 was the training manual that was used for battle tactics.

E.g historian David Glantz have estimated that 14.7 million Soviet soldiers and partisans died while official Soviet loss figures are giving some 10 million military deaths) Note: population rate between Greater Germany and Soviet Union was only about 1:2 favoring Soviet Union (84 million vs. 168-170 million based on most reliable estimates of ...