Bolshevik Revolution
Operation Barbarossa was a failure. It was Hitler's plan to invade and take over the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union kept him out of Moscow and kept pushing him East until they got to Berlin and the Soviets took the city.
The US had a spy plane called the U-2 that was shot down over the Soviet Union.
During World War 2, Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
In 1961 the Soviet Union attempted to take over West Berlin.
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army - or simply The Red ArmyBeginning in February 1946 and until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, its official name was "Soviet Army".
Several men presided over the Soviet Union during the Cold War; the last leader of the Soviet Union was Boris Yel'tsin.
Operation refers to the German invasion of the Soviet Union (USSR). It took place on 22nd June 1941 and ended just over 5 months later on December 5th 1941.
They took it over. The Soviet Union was just a name they had for all the countries that were taken over (13 I believe). It collapsed at the end of the cold war and those countries were not under the control of the soviet union anymore.
The Cold War
containment
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The Russian Revolution(1917), and the over throw of the Czar