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USSR

Or U.S.S.R.

USSR

abbreviation

  1. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

USSR

  1. Abbreviation for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the official name of the former Soviet Union.

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The year is 1946 and the setting is a stretch of Finland recently absorbed into the USSR.

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In the USSR, Soviet TV often showed the ballet following the death of Soviet leaders, and it was back on Soviet TV screens in 1991 during the failed coup by communist hardliners.

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Lisa, who attended a school in occupied Donetsk, says students there were forced to take part in events celebrating Russia and the USSR.

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The focus on Poland obscures what was happening in the USSR.

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Once part of the USSR, the country has begun talks to join the EU and turned even more firmly away from Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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