The Soviet Union or USSR (1922–1991) was a socialist state in Eurasia. After the 1924 death of founding leader Lenin (who led the October Revolution in 1917), Stalin established a planned economy and suppressed political opposition.

2024年12月16日 · " In some instances, the level of Soviet-Cuban agreement has been striking: as examples, the agreement to permit Soviet intermediate ballistic missiles on Cuban soil in 1962; the qualified Cuban support for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia as unfortunate but nevertheless necessary to protect socialism; the recent jointly coordinated ...

2024年2月9日 · Soviet citizen had to apply to the Soviet tourist agency and travel with a group of soviet toursists. Also some companies, like big factories, organized such group travel - then worker had to apply to company's department which distributed subsidised trips to factory-owned or state-owned holiday houses, resorts, etc. (usually this was local ...

2016年9月5日 · Soviet Union existed for long time and all sorts of payment systems were tried at one time or another. Admission to a metro (subway) had little difference from other countries: you put a coin or a token into a turnstile and it opened. In buses, trolleys and trams in the old times (I would say until 1970s), there was a special person called ...

2017年10月26日 · GPU/OGPU: The "O" stands for Joint, and was added after the various Soviet republics joined together to form the USSR in 1922, and the Russian agency had to become a Union one. While the original GPU reported to the NKVD of the Russian Republic, the OGPU reported to the SovNarKom (the executive government branch of the USSR).

@TylerDurden, Moscow was the most strategic city in the Soviet Union. It was the primary supply depo for the Soviet Army, the primary transportation (rail and road) hub of the entire country. If the Germans had taken Moscow in Oct-Dec of 1941 The Soviet Union's logistically would have faced a significantly harder war.

2019年9月7日 · I was a bit surprised to learn from this YouTube video (about Lottery in Soviet Union) that lottery of the kind where you had to guess like 6 numbers out of 49 or so existed in Soviet Union since early 1970's. According to the video, this lottery was televised starting in 1976. And the top prize for it was 25,000 rubles.

E.g historian David Glantz have estimated that 14.7 million Soviet soldiers and partisans died while official Soviet loss figures are giving some 10 million military deaths) Note: population rate between Greater Germany and Soviet Union was only about 1:2 favoring Soviet Union (84 million vs. 168-170 million based on most reliable estimates of ...

2020年8月18日 · In contrast low value notes are state guaranteed. This ensures that in a bank run crisis within the Soviet Union the state places a greater risk on workers and speculators and petits bourgeois and the few private bourgeois. In contrast in an inflationary crisis the state is insulated from issuing new notes as its notes rapidly become worthless.

2015年10月9日 · Although Soviet law (e.g. Article 21 of the 1978 Law on Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR) requires that the lists of electors be made public 20 days prior to election day, the number of registered voters is not revealed until after the election.