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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the Soviet Union and USSR) was a large prominent Eurasian nation state (compose of what is now the Russian Federation, the Ukraine and several Eastern European states) and the world's first communist state.
History
The USSR was created by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution of 1917, overthrowing the ineffective Duma and formalized into a unified nation state in 1922. After Lenin's Death in 1924, Joseph Stalin assumed controll of the USSR, which proceeded to rapidly expand the Industrial base of the Soviet union through a crash force economic development plan which was sucsessful in industrializing the nation and collectivised, albiet at the cost of many lives. Any decent was quickly put down by massive anti 'counter revolutionary' campaigns.
The Soviet Union played a key role in the second world war, providing millions of soldiers massive amounts of equipment (most notably the PPSH-41 Sub Machine gun, the T-34 medium tank, the IS-3 Heavy Tank, Lavochkin La-5 fighter and Katyusha rocket launchers, all of which in very large numbers), pushing back the Nazi forced back into germany. After the war, Stalin installed a series of Stalinist rulers to rule over several new eastern european communist nations, which (combined with the devoloment of the Atomic Bomb, which the soviets developed a few years after the US) lead to a Fourty five year long war betweent he communist Warsaw Pact and the US lead western North Atlantic Treaty orginization. During this period, the soviet union started the space race and maintained a massive standing army. The cold war ended in the 1980s with the emergence of Mikhail Gorbachev, who introducd programs of economic and political reform. Despite this, various internal economic forces (and not one Ronald Reagan, as some conservatives would have you beleive) eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, breaking up into several diferent economically crippled nation states, most notably the Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
Vympel is the current resident expert on the armed forces of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation on SD.net