According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, three main types of localites were included under the description P.G.T.: Workers' settlement: a locality with factories, mining industry, power stations, construction industry, with a maximum of 3,000 inhabitants. Health resort: a locality with a focus on sanatarium and health facilities. Dacha locality: settlement with a focus on private recreation at summer and on weekends with agricultural activities not more than 25%. < ...

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Townlet, Townlet - Soviet Union, Townlet - Ukrainian SSR

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Blat is a term which appeared in the Soviet Union to denote the use of informal agreements, Party contacts, or black market deals to achieve results or get ahead. The adverbial usage of the word is po blatu, meaning "by blat". Because, in the Soviet Union, the Gosplan wasn't able to calculate efficient or even feasible plans, enterprises often had to rely on people with connections, who could then use blat to help fulfill the quotas. Eventually most enterprises came to have a supply expediter - a < ...

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Blat, Blat - Soviet Union, Blat - Command-line Emailer, Blat - Bioinformatics Software

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Main article: Passport system of the Soviet Union. Internal passports were used in the Soviet Union for identification of persons for various purposes. In particular, passports were used to control and monitor the place of residence by means of propiska. Officially, propiska was introduced for statistical reasons: since in the planned economy of the Soviet Union the distribution of goods and services was centralized, the overall distribution of population was to be monitored. For example, a valid propiska was necessary ...

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Internal passport, Internal passport - Soviet Union, Internal passport - People's Republic of China, Internal passport - Other

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Source: Zaloga (1984:125, 225). See also Soviet armored fighting vehicle production during World War II. List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tankettes. T-27 (~400 pre-war) List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks. T-26 light tank (~11,000 pre-war+1,549) T-37 light amphibious tank (~2,400 pre-war) T-38 light amphibious tank (~1,200 pre-war) T-40 light amphibious tank (222 pre-war) T-50 ...

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List of World War II military vehicles by country, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Australia, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Canada, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Self-propelled artillery, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured personnel carriers, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured cars, List of World War II military vehicles by country - External links, List of World War II military vehicles by country - France, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Germany, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured cars, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Half tracks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Self-propelled artillery, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Assault guns, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tank destroyers, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Self propelled Anti-Aircraft guns, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Italy, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tankettes, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Assault guns, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Japan, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tankettes, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - New Zealand, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Converted tractors, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Light tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Poland, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tankettes, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Soviet Union, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tankettes, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Self-propelled guns, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured cars, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Half-tracks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Aerosans, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Artillery tractors, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Improvised AFVs, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Motor vehicles, List of World War II military vehicles by country - United Kingdom, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Self-propelled artillery, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tank destroyers, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured Personnel Carriers, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured Cars, List of World War II military vehicles by country - United States, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tanks, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Tank destroyers, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Self-propelled artillery, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured Personnel Carriers, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Armoured Cars, List of World War II military vehicles by country - Related lists

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Czechoslovakia continued to demonstrate subservience to the policies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in domestic and especially in foreign affairs. Czechoslovakia's political alignment with the Soviet Union began during World War II. In 1945, it was the Soviet Red Army that liberated Prague from the Nazis. The continued presence of the Red Army in Czechoslovakia until 1946 facilitated the communists' efforts to reorganize local government, the militia, and the Czechoslovak army and to place communists in key position ...

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Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia, Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia - National Front, Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia - Soviet Union, Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia - Ethnic considerations, Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia - Repression of human rights activists and religious activists, Politics of Communist Czechoslovakia - Mass media

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Several five-year plans did not take up the full period of time assigned to them (some were successfully completed earlier than expected, while others failed and were abandoned). The initial five-year plans were created to serve in the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union, and thus placed a major focus on heavy industry. Altogether, there were 13 five-year plans. The first one was accepted in 1928, for the five year period from 1929 to 1933, and completed one year early. The last, thirteenth Five-Year Plan was for the period from 1991 to 1995 and was not completed, as the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991.

Five-Year Plan, Five-Year Plan - Soviet Union, Five-Year Plan - Background, Five-Year Plan - The Plans, Five-Year Plan - The First Plan 1928-1932, Five-Year Plan - The Second Plan 1932-1937, Five-Year Plan - The Third Plan 1938-1942, Five-Year Plan - The Fourth and Fifth Plans 1946-1950 and 1951-1955, Five-Year Plan - The Sixth Plan 1956-1960, Five-Year Plan - The Seven Year Plan 1959-1965, Five-Year Plan - The Ninth Plan 1971-1975, Five-Year Plan - The Tenth Plan 1976-1980, Five-Year Plan - The Eleventh Plan 1981-1985, Five-Year Plan - The Twelth Plan 1986-1990, Five-Year Plan - Five-Year Plans in other countries

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Soviet Guards (Советская Гвардия in Russian, Sovetskaya Gvardiya), units and formations of the Soviet Army, which distinguished themselves in combat during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The title of the Soviet Guards was first introduced on September 18, 1941 in accordance with the decision of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Ставка Верховного Главнокомандующего, or Stavka Verkhovnogo Glavnokomanduyuschego) and by the order №308 of the ...

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Russian Guards, Russian Guards - Imperial Russia, Russian Guards - Russian Revolution, Russian Guards - Soviet Union, Russian Guards - Russian Federation

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List of military armoured cars - light. D-8 armored car open-topped armoured car D-12 FAI BA-20 BA-64 BTR-40 BRDM List of military armoured cars - heavy. BA-27 BA-3/BA-6/BA-9/BA-10/BA-11 ...

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List of military armoured cars, List of military armoured cars - Brazil, List of military armoured cars - Canada, List of military armoured cars - France, List of military armoured cars - Germany, List of military armoured cars - Italy, List of military armoured cars - Poland, List of military armoured cars - South Africa, List of military armoured cars - Soviet Union, List of military armoured cars - light, List of military armoured cars - heavy, List of military armoured cars - United Kingdom, List of military armoured cars - United States

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The Soviet Union made extensive use of the term (Russian language: враг народа, "vrag naroda"), as it fit in well with the idea that the people were in control. Indeed, so great a number of people were labeled with the term that most modern connotations of the phrase associate it with communism. It was in official use under the Bolsheviks' rule after the October Revolution. Soviet leaders abolished its use ...

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Enemy of the people, Enemy of the people - Soviet Union

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Even though many of the Old Bolsheviks were ethnically Jewish, they sought to uproot Judaism and Zionism and established the Yevsektsiya to achieve this goal. By the end of the 1940s the Communist leadership of the former USSR had liquidated almost all Jewish organizations, with the exception of a few token synagogues. These synagogues were then placed under police surveillance, both openly and through the use of informants. The anti-Semitic campaign of 1948-1953 against so-called "rootless cosmopolitans," the fabrication of th ...

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Persecution of Jews, Persecution of Jews - Christian, Persecution of Jews - Arab and Islamic, Persecution of Jews - Nazism, Persecution of Jews - Tsarist Russia, Persecution of Jews - Soviet Union

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Main article: Collectivisation in the USSR. In the Soviet Union, collectivization was introduced in the late 1920s as a scheme to boost agricultural production through the organization of land and labor into collectives called collective farms (kolkhozes) and state farms (sovkhozes). At the same time, it was argued that collectivization would free poor peasants from economic servitude under the kulaks. It was hoped that the goals of collectivization could be achieved voluntarily, but when the new farms failed to attract the number of peasants hoped, the government blamed the oppression of the kulaks a ...

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Collective farming, Collective farming - Soviet Union, Collective farming - Other communist countries, Collective farming - Czechoslovakia 1948-89, Collective farming - North Korea, Collective farming - Israel

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In the USSR, which was supposed to be a workers' state, every adult able-bodied person was obliged to work until the official retirement. Exceptions were study and military service. Those who did not work, study or serve were criminally charged with social parasitism (Russian: тунея́дство) and pronounced enemies of workers. Charges of parasitism frequently applied to dissidents and refuseniks. Many of them were people of mental labor (writers, journalists, lectors). Since their writings were against the regime, the s ...

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Parasitism social offense, Parasitism social offense - Parasitic social classes, Parasitism social offense - Soviet Union, Parasitism social offense - Nazi Germany, Parasitism social offense - Anti-Semitism, Parasitism social offense - Japan

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The Soviet Union initially had only a mix of imports and a few domestic tanks developed from the FTs in the 1920s, but Stalin's enthusiasm for industrialisation and mechanisation drove an aggressive military development program, resulting in by far the largest and broadest tank inventory of all nations by the late 1930s. In 1926, under a secret annex to the Treaty of Rapallo, the Soviet Union and Germany set up a joint tank school at Kazan in the west of the Urals, which was illegal under the Treaty of Versailles. Both countries learn ...

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Tanks 1919-1939, Tanks 1919-1939 - United Kingdom, Tanks 1919-1939 - France, Tanks 1919-1939 - Soviet Union, Tanks 1919-1939 - References, Tanks 1919-1939 - Germany, Tanks 1919-1939 - Japan, Tanks 1919-1939 - United States

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Main article: USSR at the Summer Olympics and USSR at the Winter Olympics Since the Soviet Union began participating in the Olympic Games, they have come home with 194 total medals in the Winter Games, 1010 from the Summer Games (1204 total medals). Out of those medals, 473 were gold, 376 were silver and 355 were bronze. In 1988, the Soviet Union competed for the last time as a unified country. In 1992, The Olympic Committee of the USSR voted to disband itself follo ...

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Belarus at the Olympics, Belarus at the Olympics - Soviet Union, Belarus at the Olympics - Summer Olympic Games, Belarus at the Olympics - 1996 Atlanta, Belarus at the Olympics - 2000 Sydney, Belarus at the Olympics - 2004 Athens, Belarus at the Olympics - Winter Olympic Games, Belarus at the Olympics - 1994 Lillehammer, Belarus at the Olympics - 1998 Nagano, Belarus at the Olympics - 2002 Salt Lake City, Belarus at the Olympics - Medals Table, Belarus at the Olympics - National Olympic Committee

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Main article: History of the Soviet Union History of Russia - Creation of the Soviet Union. The history of Russia between 1922 and 1991 is essentially the history of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union. This ideologically-based union, established in December 1922 by the leaders of the Russian Communist Party, was roughly coterminous with the Russian Empire. At that time, the new nation included four constituent republics: the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian ...

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History of Russia, History of Russia - Early history, History of Russia - Early East Slavs, History of Russia - Khazaria, History of Russia - Kievan Rus', History of Russia - Volga Bulgaria, History of Russia - Mongol Invasion, History of Russia - Golden Horde, History of Russia - Muscovy, History of Russia - The rise of Moscow, History of Russia - Ivan III the Great, History of Russia - Ivan IV the Terrible, History of Russia - Time of Troubles, History of Russia - The Romanovs, History of Russia - Peasant uprisings, History of Russia - Imperial Russia, History of Russia - Peter the Great, History of Russia - Ruling the Empire 1725–1825, History of Russia - Imperial Russia since the Decembrist Revolt 1825–1917, History of Russia - Russian Revolution, History of Russia - Russian Civil War, History of Russia - Soviet Union, History of Russia - Creation of the Soviet Union, History of Russia - War communism and the New Economic Policy, History of Russia - Changes in Russian society, History of Russia - Industrialization and collectivization, History of Russia - The Soviet Union on the international stage, History of Russia - The Khrushchev and Brezhnev years, History of Russia - Impending breakup of the Union, History of Russia - The emergence of the Russian republic in the Soviet Union, History of Russia - Russian Federation, History of Russia - Notes, History of Russia - Related histories

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Karelia, Chechnya and Tatarstan republics of Russia also tried to switch their alphabets to Latin, but the Latin alphabet was officially banned for Russia's official languages. This position was officially explained by two reasons: a) switching needs finances, but they are limited; b) it is difficult to make adult people accept the changes. Sometimes this move has been viewed as remnants of policy of Russification. In the Soviet Union, publications in technical and scientific journals were mostly in Russian; this led to underdevelopme ...

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Russification, Russification - History, Russification - Moldova, Russification - Soviet Union, Russification - Present times, Russification - Reference

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The Soviet people (Russian: Советский народ) was an ideological epithet for the population of the Soviet Union. The Soviet government promoted the doctrine of assimilating all peoples living in USSR into one Soviet people, accordingly to Marxist principle of Fraternity of peoples. The effort lasted for the entire history of the Soviet Union but did not succeed, as evidenced by developments in most national cultures in the territory aft ...

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Melting pot, Melting pot - Origins of the term, Melting pot - Melting pot vs. multiculturalism, Melting pot - Multiculturalist view of the melting-pot theory, Melting pot - Assimilationist view of the melting-pot theory, Melting pot - A Compromise between Multiculturalists and Assimilationists?, Melting pot - The melting pot in pop culture, Melting pot - Melting pot in Israel, Melting pot - Soviet Union

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Image:Sovietcolours.jpg Each regiment in the armed forces of the Soviet Union had its own Regimental Colour, which was produced to a standard design: Obverse - red field, a red star yellow bordered and the full name and number of a military unit below. Each unit has its own inscription. Reverse - red field, a gold hammer and sickle and the motto 'ЗА НАШУ СОВЕТСКУЮ РОДИУ!' ('For our Soviet Motherland!') All the Colours were red with gold fringe and square in form. See also:

Historical colours standards and guidons, Historical colours standards and guidons - Soviet Union, Historical colours standards and guidons - Guards Regiments, Historical colours standards and guidons - France, Historical colours standards and guidons - Revolutionary Army, Historical colours standards and guidons - Imperial Army, Historical colours standards and guidons - Germany, Historical colours standards and guidons - Kingdom of Prussia, Historical colours standards and guidons - Third Reich, Historical colours standards and guidons - Spain, Historical colours standards and guidons - Kingdom of Spain, Historical colours standards and guidons - Spain under Franco

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1988 European Football Championship squads, 1988 European Football Championship squads - Denmark, 1988 European Football Championship squads - England, 1988 European Football Championship squads - Italy, 1988 European Football Championship squads - Ireland, 1988 European Football Championship squads - Netherlands, 1988 European Football Championship squads - Soviet Union, 1988 European Football Championship squads - Spain, 1988 European Football Championship squads - West Germany

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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, abbreviated USSR (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (СССР) listen ▶ (help·info); tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik [SSSR]), more commonly known as the Soviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з; tr.: Including:

• Soviet Union - History
• Soviet Union - Politics
• Soviet Union - Leaders of the Soviet Union
• Soviet Union - Foreign relations
• Soviet Union - Republics
• Soviet Union - Related articles

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