Soviet Union (after 1939)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Soviet_Union_(after_1939)

GPTKB entity

Statements (105)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Country
gptkbp:alliedWith	France (during World War II) United Kingdom (during World War II) United States (during World War II)
gptkbp:anthem	gptkb:State_Anthem_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:area	22,402,200 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy	gptkb:Afghanistan gptkb:China gptkb:Czechoslovakia gptkb:Finland gptkb:Hungary gptkb:Iran gptkb:Mongolia gptkb:North_Korea gptkb:Norway gptkb:Poland gptkb:Romania gptkb:Turkey gptkb:United_States_(maritime_border) gptkb:Japan_(maritime_border)
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Moscow
gptkbp:continent	gptkb:Asia gptkb:Europe
gptkbp:currency	gptkb:Soviet_ruble
gptkbp:demonym	gptkb:Soviet
gptkbp:dissolved	1991
gptkbp:flag	gptkb:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:founded	1922
gptkbp:governmentType	federal socialist state
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Soviet Union (after 1939)
gptkbp:invaded	Afghanistan (1979) Baltic States (1940) Finland (Winter War, 1939-1940) Poland (1939)
gptkbp:largestCity	gptkb:Moscow
gptkbp:leaderTitle	gptkb:General_Secretary gptkb:Premier President (from 1990)
gptkbp:memberOf	gptkb:United_Nations gptkb:Warsaw_Pact gptkb:Council_for_Mutual_Economic_Assistance
gptkbp:motto	Proletarians of all countries, unite!
gptkbp:nativeName	gptkb:Союз_Советских_Социалистических_Республик
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Khrushchev_Thaw gptkb:Baltic_independence_movements gptkb:Sino-Soviet_split gptkb:August_Coup_(1991) gptkb:Brezhnev_Era gptkb:Hungarian_Revolution_(1956) gptkb:Chernobyl_disaster_(1986) gptkb:Prague_Spring_(1968) collapse of Eastern Bloc Afghan War (1979-1989) Berlin Blockade (1948-1949) Great Purge (1936-1938, continued repression after 1939)
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Joseph_Stalin gptkb:Konstantin_Chernenko gptkb:Leonid_Brezhnev gptkb:Mikhail_Gorbachev gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev gptkb:Yuri_Andropov
gptkbp:notableRepublics	gptkb:Byelorussian_SSR gptkb:Ukrainian_SSR gptkb:Kazakh_SSR gptkb:Uzbek_SSR gptkb:Russian_SFSR gptkb:Baltic_SSRs Caucasus SSRs Central Asian SSRs
gptkbp:nuclearTest	First atomic bomb (1949) Tsar Bomba (1961)
gptkbp:nuclearWeapons	yes
gptkbp:numberOfRepublics	15
gptkbp:officialLanguage	gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:officialName	gptkb:Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics
gptkbp:opposedBy	United States (during Cold War)
gptkbp:population	approximately 168 million (1989 census)
gptkbp:predecessor	gptkb:Russian_Empire
gptkbp:shortName	gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:significantEvent	gptkb:Chernobyl_disaster gptkb:Cold_War gptkb:Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union gptkb:Glasnost gptkb:Perestroika gptkb:Soviet–Afghan_War gptkb:Space_Race gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:spaceAchievement	gptkb:First_spacewalk_(Alexei_Leonov) First human in space (Yuri Gagarin) First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova) Launched Sputnik 1
gptkbp:sport	chess world champions dominant in Olympic Games (1948-1988) hosted 1980 Summer Olympics ice hockey world champions
gptkbp:state	atheism (officially promoted)
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Belarus gptkb:Kazakhstan gptkb:Russian_Federation gptkb:Ukraine gptkb:Baltic_States other former Soviet republics
gptkbp:won	Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II)
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Brody,_Austria-Hungary
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7