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Commonwealth of Independent States
A soviet republic was a territory of the union (much like states today). USSR (soviet union) stands for "Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia (on the Gulf of Finland) became an independent state.
The 16 republics which formerly belonged to the USSR are now all independent nations.
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was founded in 1924 as a reorganization of the Soviet Socialist Republics of Bukhara, Khorezm, and Turkestan. Uzbekistan as an independent country became free of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the USSR, was formed in 1922. when Russia merged with the Republic of Ukraine.
They need to sustain the trade flow established during Soviet times
Russisa
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.
The former Transcaucasian Soviet Republic consisted of Georgia, Albania and Azerbaijan.
the soviet defeat in Afghanistan helped bring an end to soviet power in 1991, the soviet union broke up the five soviet republics of central Asia became independent nation
Soviet Union was declared in 1922 as a union of socialist states, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) After some annexations and World War II the territory of the Soviet Union was enlarged and as result Soviet Union included the following states (Socialist Republics): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan