Soviet people
The 24th Party Congress in 1971, however, launched the idea that a new "Soviet people" was forming on the territory of the USSR, a community for which the common language – the language of the "Soviet people" – was the Russian language, consistent with the role that Russian was playing for the fraternal nations and nationalities in the territory already. This new community was labeled a people (народ – "narod"), not a nation (нация – "natsiya"), but in that context the Russian word "narod" ("people") implied an "ethnic" community, not just a civic or political community.