USSR

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, it was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the  Russian SFSR. Other major urban centers were Leningrad(Now St Petersburg) ( Russian SFSR), Kiev ( Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent ( Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata(Also known as Verniy) ( Kazakh SSR) and Novosibirsk ( Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world by surface area, spanning over 10,000 kilometers (6,200 mi) east to west across 11 time zones and over 7,200 kilometers (4,500 mi) north to south. Its territory included much of Eastern Europe, parts of Northern Europe, and all of Northern and Central Asia. Its five climate zones were tundra, taiga, steppes, desert, and mountains. Its diverse population was collectively known as Soviet people.

Male Version
Note: the male version is the most popular version that fandom defines, given that the USSR is conclusively described as male.

USSR is one of the CountryHumans characters. His face looks like a flag of the USSR. He wears an ushanka with a red star on top, where the star is the surrounding area is light brown, the rest of the ushanka except the Soviet star (being red) and the fluff on the bottom of the ear tufts being the same light brown. Sometimes he would be seen with an eyepatch with the hammer and sickle covering his left eye, this eyepatch is mostly black to highlight the yellow sickle and the hammer.

Female Version
Note: this is a little-known version due to the fact that this country is mainly described as male, however, she at least has two of her most popular versions.

On the first one, USSR wears the same clothes of her male version, the only difference is that she puts two black belts, the first is placed on her waist in a horizontal way, the second is connected to the first and placed in a vertical/oblique way, it's in order to install her weapon behind her back to be used when needed. Sometimes, instead of the ushanka, she's described with a military hat intended for female soldiers or officers, some would describe her with an eyepatch with the hammer and sickle covering her left eye just like her male version, while some wouldn't.

When it comes to the second version, she wears a light brown shirt with long and puffed sleeves, a black belt placed on her waist and a mini skirt in the same color, as she puts a crown of pink flowers with a red ribbon on her head, it's not used among the fandom that much compared to the first; because it shows the USSR with cute and harmless appearance, which is something many fans don't like or feel comfortable to see.

(Sometimes, she wear the exact same clothes including the eyepatch, she may be mistaken for a male so users just give her bigger breasts)

Personality
USSR originally started out as a more kind and caring person in their early days, as they loved their people and wanted the best for them. As time went on, the land and power they had started to get to them, and they become apathetic to their people's needs, and focused on proving their ideology was the best. During Stalin's era, they was cruel and unforgiving, completely Ignorant of their people's needs. in 1941 to 1945, they were focused only on proving he was better than Third Reich. After Stalin's era, they calmed down a bit and became interested in nuclear science and space. In 1991, when they died, they mellowed out and became more tolerable to be around. USSR also tends to have trust issues. They can also be seen as a sarcastic and devious character.

Interests
Their interests lie mainly in:


 * Spreading communism and socialism all over the world
 * Waging wars to countries that they believe are a threat to their stability and strength.
 * Helping a number of developing countries, some, just to achieve their goals and spread communist/socialist propaganda, but in some cases the reason for the help was simply a desire to do so.
 * For a little while, exploring space, this diminished after they lost the space race in 1969
 * They have some interest in alcoholic drinks like vodka, and maybe even some soft drinks. like Pepsi, may have a secret interest in smoking.

Flag meaning
To know more about this flag, click here.

Other symbols
Often these symbols are related to his ideology, the most important of which are:


 * Hammer and sickle, it stands for the industrial working class and the agricultural workers.
 * Red star, a symbol of communism as well as broader socialism in general.
 * The Internationale [1 ], the anthem of the Communist movement. Also, a fun fact is that Karl Marx, who was German, invented Communism in 1847.

Etymology
The word "Soviet" is originally a Russian word: сове́т (sovét), it means the Council, as the Soviet Union used to state that it's a group of political and economic systems.

Organizations and Affiliations
During the cold war, the Warsaw pact.

1941, he joined the Allies against the already breaking Axis powers to fight against Third Reich,  Imperial Japan, and  Fascist Italy.

He helped found UN, but was kicked out in 1950.

Creation and Early years
Marx's theory about the economic and political system would be change from the Capitalist political system into a Socialist State before achieving international cooperation and peace in a "Workers' Paradise" creating a system called "Pure Communism". Lenin followed this theory when he overthrew the Tsar and created the  USSR

On 28 December 1922, a conference of diplomatic representatives from  Russian SFSR,   Transcaucasian SFSR,  Ukrainian SSR and  Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of  USSR and the Creation of the  USSR, forming the  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

From the creation, the government of the Soviet Union was based off the one-party rule of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The purpose was to crush out the idea of a return of capitalist exploitation, and that democratic centralism would be the most effective in representing the people in a practical manner. The argument over the future of the economy provided for a power struggle in the years after Lenin's death in 1924.

According to Archie Brown, the constitution was never an accurate guide to political reality for USSR. For example, the Party played the leading role in making and enforcing policy was not mentioned in it until 1977. USSR was a federative entity of constituent republics, each with its own political and administrative powers. However, to much annoyance, the term "Soviet Russia" – applicable only to the Russian Federative Socialist Republic – was often applied to the entire country by non-Soviet writers.

On 3 April 1922, Stalin was named the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Lenin had appointed Stalin the head of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, which gave Stalin considerable power. By gradually consolidating his influence and isolating and out maneuvering his rivals within the party, Stalin became the undisputed leader of the country and, by the end of the 1920s, established a totalitarian rule. In October 1927, Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky were expelled from the Central Committee and forced into exile.

Cooperation between the USSR and the west developed in the early 1930s. From 1932 to 1934, it participated in the World Disarmament Conference(WDC). In 1933, diplomatic relations between the United States and the  USSR were established in November, when the  United States chose to recognize Stalin's Communist government formally and negotiated a new trade agreement between the two countries.

WW2
In 1939, after attempts to form a military alliance with Britain and  France against  Germany failed, the Soviet Union made a dramatic shift towards  Nazi Germany.

About a year after Britain and  France had concluded the Munich Agreement with  Germany, the  Soviet Union also made agreements with Germany, both militarily and economically. The two countries concluded the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the German–Soviet Commercial Agreement in August 1939. The former made the Soviet occupation of Lithuania,  Latvia,  Estonia, and eastern  Poland possible, while the Soviets remained neutral. In late November, unable to coerce the Republic of Finland by diplomatic means into moving its border 25 kilometers (16 mi) back from Leningrad, Stalin ordered the invasion of  Finland.

Germany broke the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 starting what was known in the  USSR as the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army stopped the seemingly invincible German Army at the Battle of Moscow. The Battle of Stalingrad dealt a severe blow to Germany from which they never fully recovered and became a turning point in the war. After Stalingrad, Soviet forces drove through Eastern Europe to Berlin before Germany surrendered in 1945. The German Army suffered 80% of its military deaths on the Eastern Front.

USSR suffered greatly in the war, losing around 27 million people. Around 2.8 million Soviet POWs died of starvation, mistreatment, or executions in just eight months of 1941–42. USSR together with the United States, the  United Kingdom and  China formed the basis of the United Nations Security Council. It emerged as a superpower in the post-war period.

Cold War Era (1945-1991)
During the post-war period, the Soviet Union rebuilt and expanded its economy, while maintaining its strictly centralized control. It took effective control over most of the countries of Eastern Europe, turning them into satellite states. USSR bound its satellite states in a military alliance, known as the Warsaw Pact. The USSR focused on its own recovery, taking and transferring most of Germany's industrial plants, and it demanded war reparations from  East Germany,  Hungary,  Romania, and  Bulgaria. It also instituted trading arrangements purposely designed to favor the country. The Warsaw Pact supplied aid to the eventually victorious Communist Party of China, and its influence grew elsewhere in the world. Fearing its ambitions, USSR's wartime allies, the  United Kingdom and the  United States, became its enemies. In the ensuing Cold War, the two sides clashed indirectly in proxy wars.

Stalin died on 5 March 1. Nikita Khrushchev eventually won the ensuing power struggle by the mid-1950s. In 1956, he denounced Joseph Stalin and proceeded to ease controls over the party and society. This was known as de-Stalinization.

Moscow considered Eastern Europe to be a critically vital buffer zone for the forward defense of its western borders, in case of another major invasion such as the German invasion of 1941. For this reason, the USSR sought to cement its control of the region by transforming the Eastern European countries into satellite states, dependent upon and subservient to its leadership.

In the late 1950s, a confrontation with China regarding the Soviet rapprochement with the West, and what Mao Zedong perceived as Khrushchev's revisionism, led to the Sino–Soviet split. This resulted in a break throughout the global Marxist–Leninist movement, with the governments in Albania,  Cambodia and  Somalia choosing to ally with  China.

During this period of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the USSR continued to realize scientific and technological techniques in the Space Race, launching the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 in 1957; a living dog named Laika in 1957; the first human being, Yuri Gagarin in 1961; the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963; Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space in 1965; the first soft landing on the Moon by spacecraft Luna 9 in 1966; and the first Moon rovers, Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2.

Khrushchev initiated "The Thaw", a complex shift in political, cultural and economic life in the country. This included some openness and contact with other nations and new social and economic policies with more emphasis on commodity goods, allowing a dramatic rise in living standards while maintaining high levels of economic growth. Censorship was relaxed as well. Khrushchev's reforms in agriculture and administration, however, were generally unproductive.

In late 1979, the Soviet Union's military intervened in the ongoing civil war in neighboring  Afghanistan, effectively ending a détente with the West.

Brezhnev's next two successors did not last long. Yuri Andropov was 68 years old and Konstantin Chernenko 72 when they assumed power; both died in less than two years. In an attempt to avoid a third short-lived leader, in 1985, the Soviets turned to the next generation and selected Mikhail Gorbachev. He made significant changes in the economy and party leadership, called perestroika. His policy of glasnost freed public access to information after decades of heavy government censorship. Gorbachev also moved to end the Cold War. In 1988, the USSR abandoned its war in  Afghanistan and began to withdraw its forces. In the following year, Gorbachev refused to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet satellite states, which paved the way for the Revolutions of 1989. In particular, the Soviet Union at the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989 then set a peaceful chain reaction in motion at the end of which the Eastern Bloc collapsed. With the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and with East and  West Germany pursuing unification, the Iron Curtain between the West and Soviet-controlled regions came down.

At the same time, the Soviet republics started legal moves towards potentially declaring sovereignty over their territories, citing the freedom to secede. On 7 April 1990, a law was passed allowing a republic to secede if more than two-thirds of its residents voted for it in a referendum. Many held their first free elections in the Soviet era for their own national legislatures in 1990. Many of these legislatures proceeded to produce legislation contradicting the Union laws in what was known as the "War of Laws". In 1989, the Russian SFSR convened a newly elected Congress of People's Deputies. On 12 June 1990, the Congress declared Russia's sovereignty over its territory and proceeded to pass laws that attempted to supersede some of the Soviet laws. After a landslide victory of Sąjūdis in Lithuania, that country declared its independence restored on 11 March 1990.

Government
There were three power hierarchies in the Soviet Union


 * 1) The legislature represented by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
 * 2) The government represented by the Council of Ministers.
 * 3) The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it's the only legal party and the final policymaker in the country.

At the head of the Communist Party is the Central Committee, which is elected by the party congress and other conferences, the Central Committee, in turn, elects the political bureau of the party, which is headed by a Secretary-General, de facto, the General Secretariat is the highest political position in the Soviet Union.

The party maintained full domination of political life in the Soviet Union through its control of appointments in addition to the important government positions, the leadership and the membership of the Supreme Soviet Council which was held by senior party members from Stalin and Khrushchev who held the post of head of state.

Algeria
The relations between Algeria and the  Soviet Union were very strong, as mutual cooperation prevailed between them, the most prominent events in these relations:


 * 1) Throughout the Algerian War of Independence (when they were PGAR), ' Soviet Union was providing military, technical, and material assistance to Algeria as the ' Soviet Union was de facto the first country in the world to recognize  the interim government of the Algerian Republic in October 1960, then de jure on March 23, 1962, by establishing diplomatic relations with this country (a few months before the formal announcement of its independence).
 * 2) In December 1963, these two countries signed an agreement on economic and technical cooperation, he committed to providing assistance in rebuilding and building industrial facilities, agricultural development, geological exploration, training of personnel, etc., they gave them a long-term loan of 90 million rubles.
 * 3) In May 1964, the two countries signed an agreement, whereby the  USSR agreed to provide technical assistance in building a metal plant in Annaba (another long-term loan of 115 million rubles was granted for these needs).
 * 4) Both were supporting the Non-Aligned Movement, which began with the participation of the National Liberation Front in the 1960s because they understood the importance of "Unity And Rapprochement" in third world countries in order to achieve local goals.
 * 5) Algeria was really close with the Soviet regime in the 1970s and 1980s because of the supply of arms because they supplied 11 billion dollars in military equipment to  Algeria between 1962 and 1989, equal to 70-80 percent of  Algeria's inventory, this deal mainly came about through the use of loans.

Geography
The USSR covers an area of 22,402,200 square kilometers. It was the largest country, and covered 1/6 of the earth's surface(about the size of the North American Continent). It spanned across 11 time zones. It included two large freshwater lakes(Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal). It had the longest border, being 60,000 kilometers across.

Republics

 * Armenian SSR
 * Azerbaijan SSR
 * Byelorussian SSR
 * Estonian SSR
 * Georgian SSR
 * Kazakh SSR
 * Kirghiz SSR
 * Latvian SSR
 * Lithuanian SSR
 * Moldavian SSR
 * Russian SFSR
 * Tajik SSR
 * Turkmen SSR
 * Ukrainian SSR
 * Uzbek SSR

Former Republics

 * Bukharan PSR
 * Khorezm PSR
 * Transcaucasian SFSR
 * Karelo-Finnish SSR

Past Versions

 * Old Great Bulgaria
 * Khanate of Khazar
 * Mongol Empire


 * Kievan Rus
 * Volga Bulgarian
 * Novgorod Republic 
 * Northern Mughal State
 * Grand Duchy of Vladimir
 * Muscovite Russia
 * Tsardom of Russia
 * Russian Empire
 * Democratic Federal Republic of Russia
 * Russian State

Future Versions

 *  Armenia
 *  Azerbaijan
 *  Belarus
 *  Estonia
 *  Georgia
 *  Kazakhstan
 *  Kyrgyzstan
 *  Latvia
 *  Lithuania
 *  Moldova
 *  Russia
 *  Tajikistan
 *  Turkmenistan
 *  Ukraine
 *  Uzbekistan

Family

 *  Armenia - Child
 *  Azerbaijan - Child
 *  Belarus - Child
 *  Estonia - adopted child
 *  Georgia - Child
 *  Kazakhstan - Child
 *  Kyrgyzstan - adopted child
 *  Latvia - adopted child
 *  Lithuania - adopted child
 *  Moldova - adopted child
 *  Russia - Child
 *  Tajikistan - adopted child
 *  Turkmenistan - adopted child
 *  Ukraine - Child
 *  Uzbekistan - adoptive child


 *  Russian Empire - Parent
 *  Cuba - Adopted child
 *  Mongolian PR - adopted child

Friends

 * Algeria - "I liked her previous self more, but I don't complain about allies."
 * Belarus - "A good daughter of mine, and very close to the Russian culture. Keep doing what you're doing."
 * China (until 1969) - "A good trading partner and friend of mine. I helped them with their revolution."
 * Cuba - "Cuba is a good friend of mine. I have to admit he did a great job of scaring America after I gave him those nukes."
 * Czechoslovak Socialist Republic - "The only Czechoslovakia I tolerate is the communist one, which is this one."
 * Democratic Republic of Afghanistan - "We got along before that pig got involved."
 * Derg - "Thanks for taking out the Ethiopian Empire and joining the right side of the cold war."
 * East Germany - "A good child who listens to their elders but a bit of a rebellious one when it comes to West Germany. He would plead me to unify with his brother because he doesn't like the conflict between them. Well, I can't do anything about it."
 * Hungarian People's Republic - "An ally in the eastern bloc. Tried to rebel against my rule. Well...I took care of that quickly."
 * Laos - "A friend who supports my spread of communism. She needed it to be freed from the French rule and a change of their government system. She didn't backstab me like this freak."
 * Mongolian People's Republic - "A good little obedient friend of mine. A great ally. He still uses the equipment I gave him."
 * North Korea - "He has a surplus of hatred for his twin brother and even I have no words to describe it. He wanted to unify but as a full pledged communist country."
 * People's Socialist Republic of Albania - "I didn't interact much with them, as Yugoslavia governed them, but they don't seem like much of a hassle."
 * People's Republic of Bulgaria - "I tolerate your existence, and you tolerate mine. You're only an ally cause you're in the eastern bloc."
 * Polish People's Republic - "A good Child who listens to me. Was one of the first to go when I calmed down."
 * PGAR - "I helped you with your liberation, and you're a great ally."
 * Philippines - "A friend from Asia who has been a long time trading partner when I was the Russian Empire."
 * Second Spanish Republic - "A Spanish friend who supports socialism and communism. They could've been a puppet of mine. It's too bad that her brother had to kill her."
 * Socialist Republic of Romania - "An ally in the eastern bloc."
 * Tonga - "I guess a friend in Oceania. They came to meet me first instead of me coming to them, but that's fine. They don't want to be communist but that's okay"
 *  United Nations  (until 1950) - "We're on friendly terms."
 * United States (until 1945) - "We help each other out. He is cautious of me though."
 * Venezuela (until 1952) - "A good Latin American friend of mine."
 * Vietnam - "My cute little southeast asian friend."
 * Weimar Republic - "Old friend of mine. Had troubles with Inflation though."
 * India - "I helped you."

Neutral

 * Free France - "We only worked together in WW2."
 * SFR Yugoslavia - "I helped him become communist, but we're just accomplices."
 * Sweden - "I don't hate him, but I don't like him. We're neutral."
 * Third Reich (until the Operation Barbarossa) - "Honestly, I don't trust them, it's true that we're trade partners now, but we're definitely not friends, I doubt their intentions, also, I don't care that my invasion of Bukovina in 1940 exceeded the sphere of influence; according to the treaty that we held, plus I knew they were using negotiations about the possibility of my entry into the Axis Powers; just so they can interfere in my affairs and even control me."

Enemies

 * China (from 1969) - "I don't like your Maoism, and we disagree on several terms."
 * Somali Democratic Republic - "So you mean that you are betraying the right side and following the capitalists so you can create your 'Greater Somalia'? That's messed up you backstabbing genocidal traitor."
 * Czechoslovakia - "As I said, the only Czechoslovakia I support is the communist one."
 * Estado Novo - "Could you just not be a pain in my butt?"
 * Ethiopian Empire (from 1950) - "You're not the real Ethiopia, Derg is."
 * European Union - "I could've united Europe much faster than you."
 * Francoist Spain (friendly in sports) - "Fascists must die. Nothing- actually, take that personally."
 * France - "We were allies in WW2, that's it."
 * Germany - "Fake Germany. East Germany is the correct Germany. But why did you steal East Germany's flag?"
 * Greek Military Junta - "Another pain in my butt."
 * Japanese Empire - "Stop trying to take my land!"
 * Japan - "I still don't trust you, at all."
 * Kingdom of Finland - "I still hate you from the Winter War."
 * Kingdom of Italy - "As I said with Spain, take it personally, Fascists must die."
 * Kingdom of Romania - "Fake Romania, The only correct Romania is the communist one."
 * NATO - "You exist. So? I'm not scared."
 * Poland - "The only Poland I support is the communist one."
 * South Korea “It was your brother’s idea to come at you. You have that stupid capitalist pig to protect you.”
 * South Vietnam - "Fake Vietnam. That's all I have to say"
 * Third Reich (from the Operation Barbarossa) - "I knew I couldn't trust you, and I was right. But mark my words, you will regret Operation Barbarossa... It will be your downfall..."
 * Ukraine - "My child. We don't exactly get along at all. I tried to explain the chernobyl disaster was not my fault, but they wouldn't listen."
 * United Kingdom - "Only allies in WW2."
 * United Nations (from 1950) - "Okay, I'm not the person you thought, and I get it, but I still hate you."
 * United States (from 1945) - "You could've told me you built nukes!!! Why didn't you!?!?"
 * Venezuela (from 1952) - "Sorry? Oh whatever you still hate me."
 * Vichy France - "Fascists. Must. Die."

Trivia

 * The USSR along with the  Third Reich are among the most infamous and hated characters in the fandom.
 * The USSR is often headcanon as a single parent who has four children: ' Russia, ' Belarus, ' Kazakhstan, and ' Ukraine.
 * They may be described as an abusive parent.
 * A number of the fans prefer headcanons that USSR was the past version of ' Russia. (they sometimes make comics of ' Russia [putting on or taking off] face paint and revealing that they're the  USSR.)