Soviet Socialist Republic

American  

[soh-vee-it soh-shuh-list ri-puhb-lik] / ˈsoʊ vi ɪt ˈsoʊ ʃə lɪst rɪˈpʌb lɪk /

noun

1. a designation for any of the former countries that became centrally administered by the Soviet Union.

   Now citizens of a free Estonia, they remember the limitations of growing up in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Etymology

Origin of Soviet Socialist Republic

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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Soviet Socialist Republic

First, in 1941, when she was just 10 years old and German bombs started falling on the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2023

In 1945, Joseph Stalin annexed it to the Soviet Union and it became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023

For Tajiks, perhaps the worst example of capricious Soviet demarcation was the decision to attach Bukhara and Samarkand, which had Persian-speaking majorities, to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan in 1924.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

Under the Soviet Union, most of Novorossiya was part of the the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which later turned into modern-day Ukraine.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2022

A 400-kilovolt power line from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union was reported to have been completed in mid-1972.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.