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Why is Russia's nickname the Soviet Union?

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It is not. In 1917, Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party took over Russia and changed it into a communist nation. That nation became the Soviet Union, a group of communist states combined into one country. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and broke up into fifteen countries, including Russia.

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