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.

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 ...

Nov 14, 2017 · EDIT. One general remark on the questions "about Soviet Union". Soviet Union existed bout 70 years and the situation changed. My answer addresses the situation from 1960 to the middle 80s, of which I have personal experience. Relaxation of restrictions began in 1989.

Basically the USSR ends in 1990 when the constitution removes the article that declares that the Comunist Party is the only political party, this was done by the new Congress, not by the soviets. This event means that the soviet no longer had any power. Therefore from now the Soviet Union no longer works as a soviet.

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 ...

Sep 7, 2019 · I was a bit surprised to learn from this YouTube video (about Lottery in Soviet Union) that lottery of the kind where you had to guess like 6 numbers out of 49 or so existed in Soviet Union since early 1970's. According to the video, this lottery was televised starting in 1976. And the top prize for it was 25,000 rubles.

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 ...

One of the stated benefits of communism is supposed to be that the property of the extremely wealthy will be seized and redistributed. However, a common criticism states that the extremely wealthy ...

@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.