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 ( 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.

Appearance
 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 Country Humans 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 he loved his people and wanted the best for them. As time went on, the land and power he had started to get to him, and he become apathetic to their people's needs, and focused on proving his ideology was the best. During Stalin's era, he was cruel and unforgiving, completely Ignorant of his people's needs. in 1941 to 1945, he was focused only on proving he was better than Third Reich. After Stalin's era, he calmed down a bit and became interested in nuclear science and space. In 1991, when he died, he mellowed out and became more tolerable to be around.

Interests
Their interests lie mainly in:


 * Spreading communism and socialism all over the world
 * Waging wars to countries that 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 he 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

He helped found UN, but was kicked out in 1950

Creation of the USSR/WW1
In 1921, the citizens of the Tsar of Russian Empire were greatly displeased because they had no food, and the tsar was eating a feast daily. The workers party especially were mad that they had to work with very little pay. They made a revolutionary party, the Bolsheviks, lead by Vladimir Lenin, rose up against the Tsar. They followed the teachings of Karl Marx(The creation of the Soviet Union Below). The communist party took control of Russia and exited WW1. Following Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin took control of the USSR.

WW2
During WW2, USSR assisted  Third Reich in the invasion of  Poland, signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. They then reclaimed their previous land, suffered a humiliating defeat in the Winter War. In 1941, at 4 AM, he was attacked by Third Reich. He attempted to counterattack in the following days, but such was no use. But he managed to keep the Germans away from Moscow and fought them off at Leningrad and Stalingrad. During the Russian winter, when he had the advantage, he managed to push Third Reich out of their territory and started pushing into German territory, and later, occupying Berlin.

1945-1991
After WW2, he helped create United Nations. In 1947, the cold war started. This consisted of the Arms race, the space race, the Korean War, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam war, and several other events. The Cold war ended when the USSR dissolved in 1991.

Creation of the Soviet Union
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

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

Friends

 * Algeria
 * Belarus
 * China (until 1969)
 * Cuba
 * Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
 * Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * People's Republic of Bulgaria
 * Polish People's Republic
 * 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
 * Socialist Republic of Romania
 * Tonga
 *  United Nations  (until 1950)
 * United States (until 1945)
 * Venezuela (until 1952)
 * Vietnam
 * Weimar Republic
 * India - "I helped you."

Neutral

 * Free France
 * SFR Yugoslavia
 * Sweden
 * 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)
 * 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
 * Estado Novo
 * Ethiopian Empire (from 1950)
 * European Union
 * Francoist Spain (friendly in sports)
 * France
 * Germany
 * Greek Military Junta
 * Japanese Empire
 * Japan
 * Kingdom of Finland
 * Kingdom of Italy
 * Kingdom of Romania
 * NATO
 * Poland
 * South Korea
 * South Vietnam
 * 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
 * United Kingdom
 * United Nations (from 1950)
 * United States (from 1945)
 * Venezuela (from 1952)
 * Vichy France

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.)