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The Soviet Union was the actual country itself. The Soviet Bloc was a group of supposedly independent countries which were really controlled by the Soviet Union.
Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Independent States
It is an independent country and a member of the CIS-the Commonwealth of Independent States. It is a former Soviet republic.
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ArmeniaAzerbaidjanBelorussiaEstoniaGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyziaLatviaLithuaniaMoldovaRussiaTajikistanTurkmenistanUkraineUzbekistan
Mikhail Gorbachev was president when the Soviet Union collapsed into independent nations, begining in early in 1985.
It became independent when the soviet union fell apart in 1991
Tito was the communist leader who kept Yugoslavia independent of the Soviet Union.
They had experienced earlier uprisings that prepared their people for independence.
They had experienced earlier uprisings that prepared their people for independence.
That would be the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS.