Soviet Union [USSR] COUNTRY PROFILE
COUNTRY
Formal Name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;
abbreviated: USSR; transliterated: Souz Sovetskikh
Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik--SSSR.
Informal Name: Soviet Union.
Term for Citizens: Formally, Soviet people; informally,
Soviets
Capital: Moscow.
Data as of May 1989
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