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Soviet Union

Historical union state, Eastern Europe and Northern Asia (1922-1991)

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve other countries. A diverse multinational state, it was organized as a federal union of national republics, with the largest and most populous being the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR). Its capital and largest city was Moscow.

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Capital
Moscow 1
Population
293,047,571 1
Area (sq km)
22,402,200 1
Independence or Founding Year
1922 1
Dissolution or End Year
1991 1
Classification
Sovereignty Status
Historical or Dissolved State 1
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Source Alexander Yakovlev (engineer) (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet aeronautical engineer.

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Source Mikhail Yangel (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk

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Source Valentin Turchin (Wikipedia)Lead section
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was a Soviet and American physicist

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Source Vladimir Levenshtein (Wikipedia)Lead section
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was a Russian and Soviet scientist

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Aleksei Nikolayevich Leontiev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Лео́нтьев, IPA: [lʲɪˈonʲtʲjɪf]; February 18, 1903 – January 21, 1979), was a Soviet Russian developmental psychologist and philosopher and a founder of activity theory.

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Sergei Leonidovich Rubinstein (Russian: Сергей Леонидович Рубинштейн; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1889 – 11 January 1960) was a Soviet psychologist and philosopher and one of the founders of the Marxist tradition in Soviet psychology.

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Source Boris Dyozhkin (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet animator, animation and art director

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10 November [O.S. 28 October] 1902 – September 4, 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.

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Source Rustam Khamdamov (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [nationality]
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is a Soviet and Russian film director and artist

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Source Yuri Ozerov (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter

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Source SU-76 (Wikipedia)Lead
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The SU-76 (Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 76) was a Soviet light self-propelled gun used during and after World War II.

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Source Sukhoi P-1 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi P-1 was a prototype Soviet interceptor.

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Source Sukhoi S-54 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Soviet Air Force's commander-in-chief, Air Marshal Yefimov, issued a statement on the issue on 20 April 1990.

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Source Sukhoi Su-1 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-1 or I-330 (Russian: Сухой Су-1) was a prototype Soviet high-altitude fighter aircraft built at the beginning of World War II.

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Source Sukhoi Su-10 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-10 or Izdeliye Ye (Russian: Product E) was a Soviet turbojet-powered bomber aircraft built shortly after World War II.

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Source Sukhoi Su-11 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-11 (NATO reporting name: Fishpot-C) is an interceptor aircraft used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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Source Sukhoi Su-12 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-12 (Aircraft RK) was a prototype Soviet reconnaissance and artillery spotter aircraft developed during World War II.

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Source Sukhoi Su-15 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a twinjet supersonic interceptor aircraft developed by the Soviet Union.

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Source Sukhoi Su-15 (1949) (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-15 (Aircraft P) was a prototype Soviet all-weather interceptor which never reached production.

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Source Sukhoi Su-17 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber developed for the Soviet military.

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Source Sukhoi Su-17 (1949) (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-17 (Aircraft R) was a prototype Soviet fighter.

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Source Sukhoi Su-2 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a Soviet reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft used in the early stages of World War II.

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Source Sukhoi Su-24 (Wikipedia)Lead, body style
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is a supersonic, all-weather tactical bomber developed in the Soviet Union.

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Source Sukhoi Su-25 (Wikipedia)Lead, body style
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is a subsonic, single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Sukhoi.

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Source Sukhoi Su-26 (Wikipedia)Lead, body style
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is a single-seater aerobatic aircraft from the former Soviet Union, powered by a single radial reciprocating engine.

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Source Sukhoi Su-27, WikipediaLead section
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is a Soviet twin-engine supersonic

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Source Sukhoi Su-30 (Wikipedia)Lead, body style
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is a twin-engine, two-seat supermaneuverable fighter aircraft developed in the Soviet Union in the 1980s by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation.

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Source Sukhoi Su-33 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a Soviet/Russian all-weather carrier-based twin-engine air superiority-focused multirole fighter designed by Sukhoi

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Source Sukhoi Su-34 (Wikipedia)Lead, body style
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is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft.

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Source Sukhoi Su-35 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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The type was originally developed by the Soviet Union from the Su-27 and was known as the Su-27M.

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Source Sukhoi Su-5 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-5 or I-107 was a Soviet mixed-power (propeller and motorjet) prototype fighter aircraft built toward the end of World War II.

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Source Sukhoi Su-6 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-6 was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft developed during World War II.

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Source Sukhoi Su-7 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a swept wing, supersonic fighter aircraft developed by the Soviet Union in 1955.

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Source Sukhoi Su-8 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi Su-8 or DDBSh (Russian: Су-8 ДДБШ - Двухмоторный Двухместный Бронированный Штурмовик - Twin-engine two-seat armored ground attack aircraft) was a Soviet prototype ground-attack aircraft of World War II.

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Source Sukhoi Su-9 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a single-engine, all-weather, missile-armed interceptor aircraft developed by the Soviet Union.

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Source Sukhoi Su-9 (1946) (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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was an early jet fighter built in the Soviet Union shortly after World War II

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Source Sukhoi T-3 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi T-3 was a prototype Soviet fighter aircraft.

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Source Sukhoi T-4 - WikipediaLead section
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is a Soviet high-speed reconnaissance

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Source Sukhoi T-49 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi T-49 was a prototype Soviet fighter aircraft.

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Source Sukhoi T-60S (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The Sukhoi T-60S was a planned Soviet 1980s replacement for the Tu-22M3.

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Source SZVARZ-Ikarus 283T (Hungarian Wikipedia)History, Moscow conversion
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A Szovjetunió fővárosában, Moszkvában

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Source Komsomolets armored tractor (Wikipedia)Description, country of origin
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The T-20 was designed in 1936 at the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Plant no.37.

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Source T-27 (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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The T-27 was a tankette produced in the 1930s by the Soviet Union.

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Source T-60 tank (Wikipedia)Lead
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The T-60 scout tank was a light tank produced by the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1942.

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Source History of War: T-70 Light TankLead, country
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The T-70 was the last light tank to be produced in significant numbers in the Soviet Union during the Second World War

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Source T-80 light tank (Wikipedia)Lead
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The T-80 was a Soviet light tank developed during the final phase of World War II.

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Source Tupolev '73' (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet trijet medium bomber of the late 1940s

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Source Tupolev A-3 Aerosledge (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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in remote areas of the Soviet Union

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Source Tupolev ANT-1 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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to help the Soviets understand the use of metal in aircraft manufacturing

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Source Tupolev ANT-10 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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The ANT-10 (which received the Soviet Air Force designation R-7)

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Source Tupolev ANT-14 (Wikipedia)Lead
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The Tupolev ANT-14 Pravda was a Soviet aircraft

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Source Tupolev ANT-16 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s

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Source Tupolev ANT-2 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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The creation of duraluminum was regarded by Tupolev as the Soviet Union's aviation industry's birth.

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Source Tupolev ANT-20 (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet eight-engine aircraft

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Source Tupolev ANT-21 (Wikipedia)Lead
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The Tupolev ANT-21 was a Soviet twin-engined four-seat heavy fighter

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Source Tupolev ANT-22 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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built in the Soviet Union in 1934

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Source Tupolev ANT-25 (Wikipedia)Lead, origin
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was a Soviet long-range experimental aircraft

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Source Tupolev ANT-3 (Wikipedia)Lead
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The ANT-3 was a Soviet all-metal aircraft designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau

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Source Tupolev ANT-35 (Wikipedia)Lead
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The Tupolev ANT-35 was a 1930s Soviet twin-engined light transport monoplane

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Source Tupolev ANT-37 (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet twin-engined long-range bomber

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Source GAZ Chaika (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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is a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union

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Source Boris Lisunov (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet aerospace engineer

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Source Polikarpov (Wikipedia)Lead, Soviet bureau
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Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft

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Source Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)Lead
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was created in 1924 by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union as a court for the higher military and political personnel of the Red Army and Fleet

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signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939

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The PTBT was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow on 5 August 1963

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Source People's Court (Soviet Union) (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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A people's court in the late Soviet Union was a court of first instance

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Source Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
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bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union

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Source Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
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The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, officially the Supreme Court of the USSR (Russian: Верховный Суд СССР) was the supreme judicial organ of the Soviet Union during its existence.

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Source Soviet Union-United States radio chess match of 1945 (Wikipedia)Lead [origin-region]
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a chess match between the United States and the USSR

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Source Dmitry Karbyshev (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Red Army general, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy

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Source Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Wikipedia)Lead, first sentence
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was a Soviet general

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Source Soviet Army (Wikipedia)Lead
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was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992
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1. Wikidata: Soviet Union
  • Wikidata Q15180, historical-state QID for cross-atlas nationality mapping (w-bbfill-sport6-0927)
  • Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
  • Wikidata P1082 (population), preferred/latest rank
  • Wikidata Q15180, class allow-list match (Q3024240 historical country)
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Soviet Union (Wikipedia)
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.

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