USSR

The USSR is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which existed from 1922 to 1991. 

It included 15 republics, which after the collapse of the USSR came to be called Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

The Soviet Union was built on a totalitarian regime. Read the latest news about what the USSR regime was like.