Soviet Union (Terran State)

The Soviet Union, also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Soviet Empire, was the ruling government of Russia and a Communist empire that rivaled the United States during the Cold War. According to the politicians and historians of the Galactic Rebel Alliance, it was also one of Terran society's most powerful civilizations in its history, due to its size, its military power and tactics, and its planned launching of Sputnik in 1957.
In 1917, a communist preacher named Vladimir Lenin had started a revolution within the Russian Empire in order to overthrow Czar Nicholas II. After the event, Lenin died,leaving a power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Ultimately, in 1928, Stalin seized power and removed his opponents including Trotsky. He then planned out a project called the Five-Year Plan to improve the Soviet economy. By the time of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941 against the Soviet Union. The invasion lasted until finally, by 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad was won by the Soviets under the leadership of General Zhukov. By 1945, when Berlin was finally captured, the Allied forces began the occupation of Germany and then established the United Nations. However, the tensions between the United States and the USSR had grown so large that it ultimately led to the Cold War. Though Stalin died in 1953, it did not stop the Soviets from launching Sputnik in 1957 and support Communist countries such as North Korea and Vietnam. In 1961, Khrushchev, the new Soviet Premier, declared the construction of the Berlin Wall, dividing Berlin. By 1989, however, the wall fell and Soviet dominance slowly disappeared in Eastern Europe. By 1991, the Soviet Union finally collapsed.
However, much of its legacy effects even that of the Galactic Rebel Alliance, primarily on the color and shape of the Rebel helmets (primarily similar to the military uniforms of World War II worn by Russian and American soldiers) and the insignia (a yellow decimal), which is much like the yellow "Hammer-and-Sickle" symbol. The weapons used by the Terran military also show some resemblance to some Soviet weapons such as the comparison between the sniper rifles used by both the Rebels and the Red Army.
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