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These countries were Marxist-Leninist states who were allied with the Soviet Union, but were not part of the Warsaw Pact. Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1991) People's Republic of Angola (1975–1991) [d] People's Republic of Benin (1975–1990) Burkina Faso (1983–1987) Chinese Soviet Republic (1931–1937)
The Soviet Union had the longest borders of any contemporary country, extending approx. 60,000 km (37,000 mi). [1] [2] They measured some 10,000 kilometers (6,213.7 mi) from Kaliningrad on Gdańsk Bay in the west to Ratmanova Island (Big Diomede Island) in the Bering Strait - the rough equivalent of the distance from Edinburgh, Scotland, westwards to Nome, Alaska.
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Map of the Union Republics between 1956 and 1991 1 Russian SFSR: 2 Ukrainian SSR: 3 Byelorussian SSR: 4 Uzbek SSR: 5 Kazakh SSR: 6 Georgian SSR: 7 Azerbaijan SSR: 8 Lithuanian SSR: 9 Moldavian SSR: 10 Latvian SSR: 11 Kirghiz SSR: 12 Tajik SSR: 13 Armenian SSR: 14 Turkmen SSR: 15 Estonian SSR
In the Soviet Union, a Union Republic (Russian: Сою́зная Респу́блика, romanized: Soyúznaya Respúblika) or unofficially a Republic of the USSR was a constituent federated political entity with a system of government called a Soviet republic, which was officially defined in the 1977 constitution as "a sovereign Soviet socialist state which has united with the other Soviet ...
Administrative divisions of the Soviet Union by republic Republic Autonomous republics Oblasts Krais Autonomous oblasts Autonomous okrugs; Armenian SSR: Azerbaijan SSR: 1: 1: Byelorussian SSR: 6: Estonian SSR: Georgian SSR: 2: 1: Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940–1956) Kazakh SSR: 19: Kirghiz SSR: 4–7: Latvian SSR: Lithuanian SSR: Moldavian SSR: 7 ...
It took effective control over most of the countries of Eastern Europe (except Yugoslavia and later Albania), turning them into satellite states. The USSR bound its satellite states in a military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955, and an economic organization, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance or Comecon, a counterpart to the European ...