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Location: Eastern Europe with land mass stretching East to the Pacific Ocean on the Asian continent, bordered on its European side in 1939 by Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and Turkey.
Capital city: Moscow
History:
On December 30, 1922, the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, combined to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR )spanning an area across Eurasia from the Western Bug River to the Pacific Ocean. By 1940 the USSR encompassed fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics. Although initially the USSR sided with Germany and participated in the occupation, partition and annexation of Poland in 1939, following the German invasion of Soviet territory in 1941, the USSR fought on the Allied side against the Axis Powers. As of 1939, approximately 3 Million Jews lived in the republics that comprised the Soviet Union at the time. An estimated 2,1 Million Jews perished in the Holocaust. The Communist Party ruled the Soviet Union throughout its existence. After most of the constituent republics declared their independence, the USSR officially dissolved December 25, 1991. (en-US)
Fonte
Robel, Gert. "Sowjetunion." In Dimension des Völkermords: Die Zahl der jüdischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Edited by Wolfgang Benz. Pp. 499-560. München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1991. pp. 500, 560