ussr
- n a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
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- Soviet Emigre Physician Warns of "Sovietization" of American Medicine, in the Journal of American Physicians and ...
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Former Soviet citizens are able to recognize circumstances that remind them of conditions in the former USSR, writes Leonid Poretsky, M.D., who is chief of the Division of Endocrinology ...
June 19, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance - Details of Yuri Gagarin’s Tragic Death Revealed
On the morning of April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin lifted off aboard Vostok 1 to become the first human in space, spending 108 minutes in orbit before landing via parachute in the Saratov region of the USSR. The soft-spoken and well-mannered Gagarin, just 27 years old at the time, became an instant hero, [...]
June 14, 2013 - Universe Today
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- Vladimir Putin in Xinhua
Russia initiated the end of the former Soviet Union. If it wasn't for Russia, the USSR would still exist...... We have no wish or grounds to encroach on the sovereignty of former Soviet republics,Putin said at a Valdai Discussion Club meeting... - Fidel Castro in Guardian Unlimited
Castro wrote that the US-led war in Afghanistan "was the same thing that the USSR wanted to do, occupy the country with its powerful armed forces that were ultimately defeated when they ran into its customs, religion and cultural differences." - Zbigniew Brzezinski in AlterNet
On the day that the Soviets officially crossed the border,Brzezinski added, "I wrote to President Carter, saying, in essence: 'We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.'" And so they did -- with the help of the...