Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart, Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
Vladimir Putin
- Euclid’s new image of star-forming region Messier 78 ESA497237.jpg (Wikimedia Commons)
- Soviet Union (Wikipedia)
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was a successor state to the Russian Empire that was nominally organized as a federal union of fifteen national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR; in practice both its government and economy were highly centralized until its final years. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it was a flagship communist state.
