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 The U.S.S.R. or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established on December 30, 1922. It emerged from the Russian Empire and is located in Eurasia. It was the first state based on the Marxist socialism. The Communist party controlled all levels of the government until 1989. The Communist party chief executive ruled the country and the general secretary was the most powerful leader in the country. The Soviet Union was a union of many Soviet Republics.

The Soviet Union was officially known as the union of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian. It was divided into 15 union republics-Armenia SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Belorussia (Belarus) SSR, Estonia SSR, Georgia SSR, Kazakhstan SSR, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) SSR, Latvia SSR, Lithuania SSR, Moldavia (Moldova) SSR, Russia SSR, Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan) SSR, Turkmenistan SSR, Ukraine SSR, and Uzbekistan SSR which seemingly joined in a federal union, but until its final year the USSR had little power. Soon Karelo-Finnish SSR and Karelian ASSR. ASSR means Armenian Soviet Socialist Republics and SSR means Soviet Socialist Republics.

The Soviet Union was the largest country in the world at its time. It took up nearly one-sixth of the world’s surface. The boundaries varied from time to time, but most of it was in Russia or the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republics (RSFSR). During the Cold War it was one of the most powerful countries beside the United States. The Soviet Union soon collapse peacefully in December 1991. Many of the Republics then went to join the [|Commonwealth of Independent States]. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union http://www.reference.com/search?q=Soviet%20Union
 * ~ The Republics of the Soviet Union ||
 * ~  ||~ Flag ||~ Republic ||~ Capital || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/USSR_Republics_Numbered_Alphabetically.png/550px-USSR_Republics_Numbered_Alphabetically.png width="550" height="376" caption="Republics of the Soviet Union"]]

Picture from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union ||
 * **1** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Flag_of_Armenian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Armenian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Armenian SSR || Yerevan ||^  ||
 * **2** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Flag_of_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Azerbaijan SSR || Baku ||^  ||
 * **3** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Byelorussian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Byelorussian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Byelorussian SSR || Minsk ||^  ||
 * **4** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Flag_of_Estonian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Estonian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Estonian SSR || Tallinn ||^  ||
 * **5** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Georgian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Georgian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Georgian SSR || Tbilisi ||^  ||
 * **6** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Flag_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Kazakh_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Kazakh SSR || Alma-Ata ||^  ||
 * **7** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Flag_of_Kyrgyz_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Kyrgyz_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Kirghiz SSR || Frunze ||^  ||
 * **8** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_Latvian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Latvian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Latvian SSR || Riga ||^  ||
 * **9** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Flag_of_Lithuanian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Lithuanian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Lithuanian SSR || Vilnius ||^  ||
 * **10** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Moldavian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Moldavian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Moldavian SSR || Chişinău ||^  ||
 * **11** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Flag_of_Russian_SFSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Russian_SFSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Russian SFSR || Moscow ||^  ||
 * **12** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Flag_of_Tajik_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Tajik_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Tajik SSR || Dushanbe ||^  ||
 * **13** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Turkmen_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Turkmen_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Turkmen SSR || Ashgabat ||^  ||
 * **14** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Flag_of_Ukrainian_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Ukrainian_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Ukrainian SSR || Kiev ||^  ||
 * **15** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_Uzbek_SSR.svg/50px-Flag_of_Uzbek_SSR.svg.png width="50" height="25"]] || Uzbek SSR || Tashkent ||^  ||