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The Commonwealth of Independent States also known as the CIS was formerly known as The Russian Commonwealth. The organization was regional and was formed after the breakup of the former Soviet Union and its participating countries were former Soviet Republics.
Boris Pasternak, the author of "Doctor Zhivago," declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 due to pressure from the Soviet government. They feared that his acceptance would worsen relations with the Soviet authorities and put his family in danger.
Uzbekistan was formerly known as the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, as it was a part of the Soviet Union before gaining independence in 1991.
Plato huh? Lol They were formerly republics in the Soviet Union.
The USSR formerly had republics and not states. Some of them include Soviet Socialist Republic, Federative Socialist Republic Ukrainian, and Soviet Socialist Republic Byelorussian.
The Dragunov SVD came from the Soviet Union. It was manufactured in several Soviet republics, the Peoples' Republic of China (as the NMD-86), and in Serbia (formerly one of the republics of Yugoslavia).
USSR , the Soviet UnionPer a web-article from the Star Tribune newspaper: The Soviet Union made a secret offer to help finance Humphrey's 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon, according to the memoir of Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States. Humphrey declined the offer.
The 16 republics which formerly belonged to the USSR are now all independent nations.
The country of Moldova was formerly known as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. After the Declaration of Sovereignty on June 23, 1990, and until the Declaration of Independence on August 27, 1991, it was officially referred to as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova, and since early 1991 as Republic of Moldova. The Moldavian SSR started out as part of the Ukrainian SSR as Moldavian ASSR (from 1924 until 1940).
In 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed as a merging of the following existing countries:Russian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicTranscaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet RepublicUkrainian Soviet Socialist RepublicByelorussian Soviet Socialist RepublicThe Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was formed in 1917, after the October Revolution, from most of the former Russian Republic, formerly known as the Russian Empire.
Not all formerly Soviet-controlled areas have become independent nations. While many republics that were part of the Soviet Union, such as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, gained independence after its dissolution in 1991, some territories remain under the control of other nations or are subjects of ongoing disputes. Additionally, regions like Transnistria in Moldova and Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia have declared independence but are not widely recognized as sovereign states.