Soviet Union

The Soviet Union was a communist nation formed out of the ashes of the old Russian Empire of the czars in 1917. After the Allied victory in World War II, the Soviet Union was one of the world's two superpowers until its collapse in 1991. Russian President Vladimir Putin called collapse of the Soviet Union "one of the greatest geopolitical tragedies of the 20th century" and sought to restore the power of the former Soviet Union by expanding Russia's borders in the early 21st century.
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