USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

U.S.S.R. stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993.

Now let's look at another part of the world, the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, the 'stans.

Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Soviet astrophysicist, cosmologist Yakov Zeldovich.

There's the former Soviet megalomaniacs.

I'm for the Soviet power.

All Russia will be Soviet!

For the Soviet power, forward!

Propaganda against the Soviet power.

This is from Soviet Union. Attractive.

Spread propaganda against the Soviet power.

You're an enemy of the Soviet power!

I'm a hero of the Soviet Union,

The Soviet troops started to withdraw from Afghanistan.

blockade anymore arm shipments to the Soviet Union.

loose nuclear material in the former Soviet Union.

Lieutenant Grigory Melekhov, hostile to the Soviet government.

There's oil spills, environmental disasters, water rights disputes, breakaway republics, famine, endangered species and global warming.

Communism is the system practiced in the Soviet Union.

The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.

The Soviet Union took a hostile attitude toward us.

The Soviet Union eventually agreed to remove their missiles.

When those Mujahideen defeated the Soviet Union, we disengaged.

The Soviet Union didn't really have a Sierra Club.

All of a sudden, the Soviet Union, they split.

And then of course, I blame the Soviet Union.

He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.

In the '90s, after the breakup of the Soviet Union,

It was more considered South Siberia during the Soviet Union.

We're from the Soviet Union, here on a cultural exchange.

In 1986 the former Soviet Union launched communications satellite Ikon.

The news was all about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

You know the Soviet architecture of that building is the conservation.

Zel'dovich in former Soviet Union, and Martin Reese in United Kingdom.

This is America, this is the Soviet Union, this is India!

Alexander Friedmann in Soviet Union developed relativity based expanding universe models.

And so, the United States kind of tells the Soviet Union,

like the U.S. submarine community, which watches the Soviet Navy disappear overnight.

But the Soviet Union had neither a capitalist system nor a democracy.

The US and Soviet Union never really fired bullets at each other.

And the same with, for instance, Tetris, original version, the Soviet one.

In the 1990s, North Korea lost its old mentor, the Soviet Union.