Soviet Union

Flag of the Soviet Union (1922-1992)

## General Information

### Organization Type

* Federal one-party parliamentary socialist directorial republic (1922 - 1927; 1953 - 1990)
* Federal Stalinist one-party parliamentary totalitarian dictatorship (1927 - 1953)
* Federal multi-party semi-presidential republic (1990 - 1992)

### Founding Document

* Treaty of the Creation of the USSR
* Declaration of the Creation of the USSR

### De Facto Leader

* Vladimir Lenin (1922 - 1924
* Joseph Stalin (1924 - 1953)
* Nikita Khrushchev (1953 - 1964)
* Leonid Brezhnev (1964 - 1982)
* Mikhail Gorbachev (1985 - 1992)

## Societal Information

### State Religious Body

* Secular State (de jure)
* State Atheism (de facto)

### Anthem

* "The Internationale" (1922 - 1944)
* "State Anthem of the Soviet Union" (1944 - 1992)

## Historical Information

### Formed From

* Russian Republic
* Russian SFSR
* Transcaucasian SFSR
* Ukrainian SFSR
* Byelorussian SFSR

### Date Reorganized

* 1922
* 1936
* 1963
* 1990

### Date Dissolved

January 15, 1992

The **Soviet Union** (known officially as the **Union of Soviet Socialist Republics**, or the **U.S.S.R.**), was a sovereign transcontinental state located on the Eurasian plate on Earth. The USSR consisted of over 15 soviet republics, the largest of which was the Russian SFSR. Its capital was Moscow, and various cities included Petrograd and Volgograd.

Founded after the Russian Civil War in 1922. The Soviet Union was a great power in both Europe and Asia, having inherited much of the land and power of the former Russian Empire. Unlike the democratic capitalist western Europe and America, the Soviet Union followed the principles of Marxism and Communism, and considered all things not communist were a threat to their way of life. The USSR played a significant role in World War II, having pushed the German army out of their lands by 1944. Their victory in the war made them one of the world's superpowers alongside its rival: the democratic United States of America. Both countries remained rivals for the next few decades until 1989, when both put aside their differences, ending the Cold War.

By the early 1990s, the USSR was on the decline. Nonetheless, the country accepted an alliance with the Galactic Republic following their arrival on Earth, and later joined the Terran Alliance, with several members of the Soviet military joining the Anti-Sith Assault Team. In 1992, both the U.S. and USSR were the first target of the Separatists during their invasion, with battles taking place mostly in Volgograd and Vladivostok, both ending in theirs and the world's victory. However, the USSR was left with a crumbling infrastructure, economy, and military. On January 15, 1992, the Supreme Soviet ratified the Belavezha Accords, which officially dissolved the Soviet Union and declared independence to its republics. After 80 years of existence, the Soviet Union was no more.

Russia became the USSR's successor, and inherited its seat in the United Nations and its Security Council. Russia would also join the Council of Five, alongside the United States, United Kingdom, France, and China.

## History

### Stalin Years

The Soviet Union was founded after the Russian Civil War between the Bolsheviks (the Reds), and the Loyalists (the Whites). The war would end in a Bolshevik victory and they would establish the Russian Soviet Republic. Later in 1922, Russia along with the soviet republics of Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Transcaucasian to from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, took power in 1927 after the death of Vladimir Lenin. He turned the USSR into an industrial power, but ruled as a dictator with an iron fist. From 1936-38, millions of people were either killed for treason or forced into the gulags in Russian Siberia, known as "Stalin's Purges", while others were died in starvation due to the Collectivization policies of Stalin, including the infamous Holodomor - a man-made famine and genocide that killed millions of Ukrainians, to which the Russian authorities denied such atrocities, until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 and creation of the Terran Jedi Order.

Stalin also played a big role against the religious people as he ordered an anti-religious persecution campaign in 1921-28, as the Soviet authorities persecuted and oppressed all of the religious groups. The majority of which were Russian Orthodox, and forced them to embrace the atheist belief of the Communist Party, the atheistic anti-religious policy of USSR ended in late 80's to early 90's when USSR allowed religious freedom thanks to Mikhail Gorbachev's policy.

### World War II

In 1939, World War II began after Germany invaded Poland and declared war on France and Britain. The USSR signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, but it was simply so both countries wouldn't get in the way over either one's plans. Stalin also kept close ties with Britain and France as they fought Germany.

#### The Winter War

In 1940, the USSR invaded Finland in an attempt to annex it. Unfortunately, the Soviet military was unprepared for the invasion and were halted by the Finnish counterattack. In the end, Finland did surrender, but the USSR only annexed parts of the country. It was a hollow victory for them and showed Germany that the Soviet Union wasn't as strong as they thought.

#### Eastern Front and Continuation War

In 1941, Germany broke its non-aggression pact with the USSR and began Operation Barbarossa against them, taking large swathes of the USSR, putting the city of Leningrad under siege, and advancing towards the Soviet capital of Moscow. However, the Germans were halted by extreme weather conditions and pushed back slightly. Finland, who was now an ally of Germany, declared war and took back its old territory from the Winter War. The Russians then launch a counterattack on both sides, and pushed the Germans out of the city of Stalingrad and forced Finland to surrender once again. The Soviet Union then went on the offensive, and began to push the German Army back to Germany.

#### End of the War

The Soviet Union successfully captured the German capital of Berlin in 1945, while its allies, the United States and Great Britain liberated all of western Europe and crossed the Rhine. The USSR later declared war on the Empire of Japan and invaded the Japanese controlled lands of Manchuria. The US would later dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, bringing an end to the war.

### The Cold War

Soviet Union became a member of the United Nations and a permanent member of its security council after the war. Despite its victory, in 1947, the USSR found a new rival: the United States of America. The US stood for everything the USSR stood against and a heated rivalry began to the two superpowers began. Both countries would try to get the upper hand one one another, supporting armed conflicts over in many third world countries, the Space Race, and an race for nuclear supremacy. Throughout the 20th century, the US and USSR threatened nuclear conflict, with close calls from the 1960s to 1980s. Despite this, both sides did work to cool things down, and by 1989, the US and USSR ended their rivalry, beginning the end to the Cold War.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was criticized for its atrocities even before World War II, especially for persecution it's people during the Lenin and Stalin era unfortunately the Soviet Union uses the propaganda called " *Whataboutism* ", a technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue it is also a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which uses by Soviet politicians against the West just to justify their Communist oppression on their people.

In 1986, the USSR began to decline in power, from numerous domestic problems that emerged within the country, from the Chernobyl Disaster to the Soviet's failing conflict in Afghanistan. The Premier of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, proceeded to make several reforms to the country as well as becoming a democratic country. Turning the USSR into a more capitalist society. This would result in the August Coup of 1991, when communist hardliners attempted to overthrow Gorbachev via a military coup d'état. Though the coup failed and Gorbachev still remained in power, the USSR continued to decline.

### The Republic

In November of 1991, the United States contacted the Soviet Union about their first contact with the Galactic Republic, alerting them that their military was now at DEFCON 2 and assured their former rival not be worried. After creating a loose alliance with the U.S., the Republic attending a meeting with the United Nations in which the USSR was part of. They, along with 128 other countries on Earth, agreed to an alliance in order to combat an upcoming Separatist invasion.

### Separatist Invasion

The Soviet Union did not participate in the capitulation of Iraq, Libya, or North Korea's leaderships. However they, along with the United States were the first targets of the CIS's invasion. The Soviet Air Force was successful in destroying a large portion the Separatists' bombers and were mildly successful in defending the cities of Volgograd and Vladivostok, the latter of which was the final ground battle in the invasion of Earth.

### Collapse

Despite their air superiority and victories in Volgograd and Vladivostok, the Soviet Union was unable to keep itself together after the war. On top of that, Gorbachev's reforms only weakened the country even further. Knowing that the country couldn't survive any longer, the Supreme Soviet ratified the Belavezha Accords on January 15, 1992, formally repealing the 1922 Union Treaty and dissolving the USSR and the Soviet republics were all officially granted independence, with each new country moving towards a capitalist society and transitioning to a democratic government.

### Legacy

Following the USSR's collapse, the United States and Galactic Republic sent aid to the former republics of the USSR. The Soviet Union's legacy continued on in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR, later renamed the Russian Federation. Russia would inherit the USSR's nuclear arsenal, large portions of the former Soviet military, and its seats in the United Nations, Terran Alliance, and its Security Council.

The new Russian government along with Terran nations also played a big role for exposing the past atrocities of the former USSR, such as the executions of Tsar Nicholas and his family, the persecution of religious people, forced conversion to Atheism, massive purges of innocent people to the Gulag, and lastly the Jedi's assistance to the victims of Soviet authorities in the past decade, including those who died during the Holodomor and other collectivization policies instigated by the Soviet government.

In 2018, A group of Russian citizens apologized to the late Tsar Nicholas II and his family asking for forgiveness, especially how they displayed the image of the deceased Russian monarch as they express their grief and regret despite his atrocities, which praised by many people around the globe, including the Terran Jedi Order.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearances)*

## External link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet\_Union