Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union was a group of what are now separate countries, dominated by Russia.
Its full name was Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated U.S.S.R. in English; in Russian SSSR, written СССР in Cyrillic). Since it was a Communist nation but called itself "socialist", we can deduce that Communism and Socialism are the same thing. The same technique, applied to "German Democratic Republic" or "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" allows us to see that Democracy, Republicanism and Communism are also all the same thing; in the latter case, it also implies that people are all Communists.
While hardly a parade of sunshine and roses (in fact, they were quite shitty), the USSR was far from the evil baby-eating, warmongering mega-villains the western propaganda portrayed them as. While they lacked the inalienable right of Americans to exploit the poor, the Soviets did see to it that the parts of their population the leaders liked were taken care of. By many standards, life in Russia has actually gotten worse since the fall of the USSR, but this could be because the country is now run by a Bond villain.
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[edit] Member "republics"
These are the SSR's of the U.
[edit] Empire builder
[edit] Big countries
- Ukraine
- Belarus (formerly Byelorussia)
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan
[edit] Little countries
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Kyrgyzstan (was known as Kirghizia before the departing Soviets confiscated most of the vowels)
- Lithuania
- Latvia
The other "Baltic" nationEstonia- Moldova
- Tajikistan
[edit] Took a hike, but someone can't let go
- Abkhazia (part of Georgia)
- Chechnya (part of Russia, de facto leveled)
- Nagorno-Karabakh (part of Azerbaijan, claimed by Armenia, de facto independent for complicated diplomatic and military reasons)
- Transnistria (part of Moldova)
[edit] Satellites
[edit] Loyal (mostly) commies
These countries were members of the Warsaw Pact, the mutual defense organization created by the Soviet Union to keep its friends close and its enemies closer. East Germany was reunified with West Germany in 1991; Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic are now NATO allies, much to the great annoyance of Russia. Cuba is the only one that remains officially Communist.
- Bulgaria
- Vietnam
- Cuba
- East Germany (DDR)
- Hungary (withdrew from the Warsaw Pact after the 1956 revolution but was forced to join again after the Soviet Union invaded it and crushed the revolution)
- Poland (Polska) (don't forget them)
- Romania
CzheckzoChekovCheckerCzechoslovakia (broken in two after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact to make spelling easier)
[edit] Commies that weren't so loyal
These were Communist countries that either did not join or withdrew from the Warsaw Pact.
[edit] Viet Nam
- Afghanistan (as in, not quite, but bloody and pointless enough)
[edit] In Soviet Russia
- In America, you watch TV. In Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU!!
- In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find YOU!!
- In America, you look for Waldo. In Soviet Russia, Waldo finds YOU!!
- In America, you bring Lada to junkyard. In Soviet Russia, junkyard bring Lada to YOU!!
- In America, you enrich uranium. In Soviet Chernobyl, uranium enriches YOU!!
- In America, you can say "death to America" and not be arrested. In Soviet Russia... you could pretty much get away with saying that too.
