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yes, because the ussr stands for the united soviet socialists republics

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Q: Is the USSR and the soviet union the same thing?
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Why did the USSR become to the Soviet Union?

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and the Soviet Union are different names for the same thing. It's like how another name for the United States of America is USA.


Do the terms Soviet Union and Soviet Republic mean the same thing?

A soviet republic was a territory of the union (much like states today). USSR (soviet union) stands for "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"


Is Soviet Union same as USSR?

Yes. The USSR stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It no longer exists, as the countries that were in it are now all independent. It was dissolved in 1991.


Are the Soviets and the Soviet Union the same thing?

Soviets are people from the Soviet Union, it's like Americans and America


What country was opponent of the us cold war?

The USSR or the Soviet Union. -Not the Russian although it was the same people and they came from the same place.


What do the soviet union USSR and the union of soviet sociallist republics all have in common?

They are the same. 3 names for one country. Actually, today it is Russia again (with a little smaller territory than before. )


Why didn't Britain also declare war on the Soviet Union after it occupied Poland at about the same time that Germany did?

UK was allied USSR.


What is the monetary unit of USSR?

The soviet union no longer exists...it broke up in 1994


Are Soviet Russia and Soviet Union the same place?

The Soviet Union was an assembly of Socialist states dating from the 1920s to its eventual dissolution in 1991. Although the Soviet Union and Russia are not the same place, Moscow, the Russian capital was the centre of the Soviet government with Leningrad (St. Petersburg), another Russian city, serving as in many instances the 2nd most influential city. Additionally, the Russian Revolutionaries that dissolved the Russian monarchy in 1917, led by Vladimir Illyich (Lenin), known as the Bolsheviks, would lead the eventual assembly and creation of the USSR (Soviet Union)


Is the fall of the Soviet Union the same as the Soviet Union split?

Yes.


Is the Soviet Union or the ussr more to blame for the outbreak and development of the cold war?

1. Neither of the reasons you state caused the cold war. 2. The cold war was caused by the atomic bomb. 3. The A-bomb resulted in no-one willing to risk fighting total war again. 4. Total war (using the bomb) risked MAD=Mutually Assured Destruction. 5. The Soviet Union is the USSR (same thing).


What other names did Russia have in the past?

Russia and the Soviet union are the same thing. So is Soviet Russia and the U.S.S.R. As well the Soviet Union(U.S.S.R) was just Russia and its satellite countries put together under communist rule in Russia.