MIAMI, United States. — The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, was founded on December 30, 1922. On that day, Russia and three other republics (Belarus, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Republic, made up of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia ) agreed to merge giving life to the new Bolshevik empire.
The new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire. The Soviet Union would become the first set of nations to apply Marxist socialism.
The government of the new Soviet state consisted of an executive branch, called the Central Executive Committee, as well as a legislative organization, called the Council of People’s Commissars. Government members were elected by local councils, known as soviets, which reported to the Congress of Soviets.
The great leader of the Soviet Union would end up being Joseph Stalin, who served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party from 1922. The power of the steel dictator would soar even more after Lenin’s death in 1924, transforming the still young USSR. in a territory marked by political persecution and human rights violations.
Stalin instituted “five-year plans” designed to advance industrialization and make the Soviet Union a world power. Among the long-term plans of the leaders of that giant state was to prove that communist ideology offered the only way of development and that “the Soviet Union dominated the other great superpowers of the world.”
Neither the victory in World War II served the Soviet Union and its leaders to erase the disastrous imprint that the communist experiment would leave internationally. In this sense, it should be noted that the USSR ended up transforming into a human experiment laboratory vitiated by the corruption and totalitarianism of the dominant political class.
The Soviet Union existed until 1991, when Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine—three of the founding states of the Soviet Union—declared their dissolution. It was officially dissolved on December 21 and temporarily replaced by the so-called Coalition of Independent States.
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