U.S.S.R.
or USSR
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
noun
Also called Russia, Soviet Union.
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Yet while he praised the USSR publicly, he was making plans in secret to escape to America by way of Vladivostok.
The USSR had ceased to exist, and its aid to Najibullah was coming to an end.
The Warlord Who Defines Afghanistan: An Excerpt From Bruce Riedel’s ’What We Won’Bruce Riedel
July 27, 2014
Almost nothing has been touched since the fall of the USSR in 1991, providing an uncanny glimpse behind the Iron Curtain.
Only people who are 40-plus years old with a USSR education support us, but where are the youth?
This and other policies made many in the west believe that Ukraine must free itself from the USSR at all costs.
USSR
abbreviation for (formerly)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
noun
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