The Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics (USSR) (Russian: СоюзСуверенныхСоветскихРеспублик, СССР (Soyuz Suverennykh Sovetskikh Respublik, SSSR); also known as Neo-Sov or Neo-Soviets) is an energy and military superpo
The OURball Soviet Empireball Onionball Unionball, also known as Sovietball, fuking Cold Salut have you seen me? USSRball, URSSball, CSSRball, CCCPball, or Soviet Russiaball, officially Union of Soviet Socialist Republicsball, was one of the biggest countryballs ever on Earthball. It was al...
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union or USSR, is a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia and was founded in 1922. A flagship communist state, it is nominally a federal union of fifteen national repub
Map showing greatest territorial extent of the Soviet Union and its allies in 1960, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961 Moscow considered Eastern Europe to be a very vitalbuffer zonefor the forward defense of its western borders. For this reason...
Due to its length, it has sometimes been referred to as the "Soviet Union's Vietnam War" or the "Bear Trap" by Western media.[84][85][86] The Soviets' failure in the war[87] is thought to be a contributing factor to the fall of the Soviet Union.[54] It has left a mixed ...
The Soviet Union in 1922, managed to produce their own copy of Duralumin known as Kol’schugaluminiyem alloy. The name was related to a small village Kol’chugino where this factory was located. Limited production of this alloy began in 1923. Due to problems with the production of the ...
languages of all the 15 union republics: “Workers of All Countries, Unite!” The grain represented Soviet agriculture. A five-pointed star, symbolizing the Soviet Union’s solidarity with socialist revolutionaries on five continents, was drawn on the upper part of the Emblem. /Wikimedia Commons...
In 1975, the USSR fired a cannon from an orbiting space station. We finally got a good look at the gun.
Good Morning, Africa!, by O. Masliakov (1960) / Wikimedia Commons During the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union significantly increased its influence in what began to be referred to as the Third World. This broad arena of Cold War rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States cons...
Soviet Union (1941) Improvised Armored Vehicles – Estimated 100 Built It is hard to stress how dire the situation was for the Red Army in the summer of 1941. In as little as two months, 10,000 tanks had been lost to the German Army and her allies. Therefore, factories across...