Soviet Union

The Soviet Union (officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) is a country in Eurasia. Stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait, it is the largest nation in the world, and the home of the international socialist movement. The USSR is organised as a federal republic along Marxist-Leninist lines, born from the ashes of the Russian Revolution. It is considered a superpower alongside the Franco-British Union after its trial by fire in the Second Great War, and is the leading state within the Warsaw Pact. It is a permanent executive council member of the League of Nations.