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Find news and information from RT about the Soviet Union (USSR) and its formation. The Soviet Union was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 on the territory of Eastern Europe, North, Central and East Asia. It consisted of 15 Republics, all of which today are independent states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Russian SFSR, Tajikistan, Turkmenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. Before its collapse, the Soviet Union was the largest state in the world. Get the news and articles on history of the Soviet Union and each of its Republics then and nowadays. The Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, granting independence to its Republics. A lot of assets remained and spread across the former Soviet territory. One of them was the nuclear arsenal, and Russia became a successor state to the Soviet Union as a nuclear state. Follow RT to find the news and stories on the Soviet nuclear legacy and the Lisbon protocol signed by Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, who agreed to become non-nuclear states.

Farewell, George Blake. They say you were a traitor, but to whom & what? You helped rescue humanity from fascism
Former British spy and Soviet double agent George Blake (98) who died in Moscow over Christmas lived most of his life in prison or in exile. Yet he was never really in a foreign land. Or rather, he always was, his whole life.
Dec 28, 2020 17:50
Unrest & turbulence in parts of former Soviet Union mean its collapse has NOT been accomplished
We need to rethink the timescale of political history. 30 years after the collapse of the USSR, it is too early to tell what it meant on a global scale and whether the process has been completed.
Oct 12, 2020 16:18
Whitewashing crimes of STALIN 'unacceptable' – Gorbachev on 30th anniversary of decree rehabilitating 'enemies of the people'
Attempts to downplay the repressions of the Stalin era must be fought relentlessly, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said, three decades after his decree to rehabilitate victims of Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime.
Aug 14, 2020 09:25
Russia & Former Soviet Union
Trump could do to China what Reagan did to Soviet Union, if he wins second term, economics professor tells Boom Bust
Beijing says it will not accept Washington’s “smash and grab” policy of trying to force the sale of Chinese social media app TikTok. It’s warned it will retaliate against what it calls “theft.”
Aug 5, 2020 11:26
Business News
Harold James: Today’s America bears striking similarities to pre-collapse USSR
Like the Soviet Union in its final years, the United States is reeling from catastrophic failures of leadership and long-suppressed socioeconomic tensions that have finally boiled over.
Jul 20, 2020 17:46
Remember how public health COLLAPSED after Soviet Union fell? I fear West will see same due to post-lockdown economic CATASTROPHE
The self-inflicted damage we’ve done to our economies in the name of combating Covid-19 will kill far more people than the virus itself. The economic collapse that followed the communist bloc’s break-up caused millions of deaths.
Jun 10, 2020 06:55