Random Facts of my nation

Republics of the Soviet Union


The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics (Russian: союзные республики, soyuznye respubliki) of the Soviet Union were ethnically based administrative units that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was historically a highly centralized state; the decentralization and democratization reforms during the era of Perestroika and Glasnost conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev led to the Dissolution of the USSR.

According to the Article 76 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution, the sovereign Soviet socialist states united to become the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Article 81 of the Constitution stated that "the sovereign rights of Union Republics shall be safeguarded by the USSR".

In the final decades of its existence, the Soviet Union officially consisted of fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR). All of them were considered to be Soviet socialist republics (SSR), and all of them, with the exception of the Russian SFSR (until 1990), had their own Communist parties, part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

However, the Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, do not consider themselves to have ever been part of the USSR. They assert that their incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1940 (as the Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Estonian SSR) under the provisions of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was illegal, and that they therefore remained independent countries under Soviet occupation. Their position is supported by the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the United States.] In contrast, the Russian government and state officials maintain that the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states was legitimate.
In 1944, amendments to the 1936 Soviet Constitution established separate branches of the Red Army for each Soviet Republic. They also established Republic-level commissariats for foreign affairs and defense, allowing them to be recognized as de jure independent states in international law. This allowed for two Soviet Republics, Ukraine and Byelorussia, to join the United Nations General Assembly as founding members in 1945.
All of the former Republics are now independent countries, with eleven of them (all except the Baltic states and Georgia) being very loosely organized under the heading of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Constitutionally, the Soviet Union was a federation. In accordance with provisions present in the Constitution (versions adopted in 1924, 1936 and 1977), each republic retained the right to secede from the USSR. Throughout the Cold War, this right was widely considered to be meaningless; however, the corresponding Article 72 of the 1977 Constitution was used in December 1991 to effectively dissolve the Soviet Union, when Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus seceded from the Union.

In practice, the USSR was a highly centralised entity from its creation in 1922 until the mid-1980s when political forces unleashed by reforms undertaken by Mikhail Gorbachev resulted in the loosening of central control and its ultimate collapse. Under the constitution adopted in 1936 and modified along the way until October 1977, the political foundation of the Soviet Union was formed by the Soviets (Councils) of People's Deputies. These existed at all levels of the administrative hierarchy, with the Soviet Union as a whole under the nominal control of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, located in Moscow within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Along with the state administrative hierarchy, there existed a parallel structure of party organizations, which allowed the Politburo to exercise large amounts of control over the republics. State administrative organs took direction from the parallel party organs, and appointments of all party and state officials required approval of the central organs of the party. General practice in the republics outside of Russia was that the head of state in a republic was a local official while the party general secretary was from outside the republic.

Each republic had its own unique set of state symbols: a flag, a coat of arms, and, with the exception of the Russian SFSR, an anthem. Every republic of the Soviet Union also was awarded with the Order of Lenin.
A hall in Bishkek's Soviet-era Lenin Museum decked with the flags of Soviet

You know... that was really very interesting But... I'm still not entirely sure where you are from

You've mentioned plenty about USSR, but also about Byelorussia (Modern day Belarus?), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and even Kyrgyzstan. I'm guessing, however, you are of Russian descent?

I'm an arrogent athiest yankee


who loves /b/ .

Adamaska, you being a fan of the USSR, here are some WW2 tunes you might like:

Вставай страна огромная:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK2T2aPooy4

По долинам и по Взгорьям:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJRwSTJVuQ (wait until it develops),
OR listen to a "softer" version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bixk9_-mRxo

This one was restored as the current Russian anthem (with changed lyrics of course, and the modern version sounds much softer). The one here was the real Soviet anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2045gT2giRA

And, if you're to listen to these, of course, my advice is to disregard a number of nationalists and their comments
Just listen to the music.

Hey Sulleh.. I think I need your helps.. We have a red scare going on here... Iron Curtain up in this bitch.

COLD WAR STATUS.

haha that's what you get when you move from purple to red

Vrangor wrote:

Adamaska, you being a fan of the USSR, here are some WW2 tunes you might like:

Вставай страна огромная:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK2T2aPooy4

По долинам и по Взгорьям:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJRwSTJVuQ (wait until it develops),
OR listen to a "softer" version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bixk9_-mRxo

This one was restored as the current Russian anthem (with changed lyrics of course, and the modern version sounds much softer). The one here was the real Soviet anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2045gT2giRA

And, if you're to listen to these, of course, my advice is to disregard a number of nationalists and their comments
Just listen to the music.

yes i love them lol

Darth Moses wrote:

Hey Sulleh.. I think I need your helps.. We have a red scare going on here... Iron Curtain up in this bitch.

COLD WAR STATUS.

Cold war Status when in Cybernations it kinda is like a cold war we wait to attack or be attacked its not like playing Black Jack how ever that was one of the soviet bombers in the cold war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160 and it is the best bomber in the game lol http://www.cybernations.net/aircraft_specifications.asp?aircraft_specifications=Tupolev%20Tu-160


remember vote for Adamaska

Glad you liked the music

I kinda preferred the Tu-22M Backfire bomber (dated?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-22M . Back when I played Harpoon on Amiga (and later, Harpoon Classic 97 tactical simulation game on PC), whenever I led the NATO forces, my ships were ruthlessly pounded by Backfire bombers. They would launch a hailstorm of Kingfish mach 3.5 missiles from a standoff distance (cca 400 miles) and afterburn back at supersonic speed. Then repeat. Since they could reload many times over in the Soviet territory, my Keflavik airport was always taking heavy damage, and the loss in shipping was disastrous... Though I always managed to intercept the Soviet subs carrying SpetsNaz...hehe.

Ah, the good old times and good old strategic games...

Speaking of the USSR, the funniest Soviet leader to me was Brezhnev ('70s):

PUBLIC...



...and private...

Ahh. Well I was simply refering to the Cold War in RL. Just the basics of it, nothing specific. It's not one of my favorite parts of history class. Seeing as it was brought up in my US History II and International Relations class back to back last year. I heard enough of about the Vietnam war and failed politics.

lol i wish the soviets would take out Hitler like in Command and Conquer that way it would cost us and them a lot less life's facing the nazis and lot less problems in the world aka Neo Nazis


http://www.commandandconquer.com/classic

It was not all that bad. The Cold War brought an era of unprecedented technological achievements and economic boom for both sides, even better life for the Third World. The Space Race was also admirable and witty at times:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs :

"Strelka went on to have six puppies with a male dog named Pushok who participated in many ground-based space experiments, but never made it into space.[8] One of the pups was named Pushinka (Пушинка, "Fluffy") and was presented to President John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. A Cold War romance bloomed between Pushinka and a Kennedy dog named Charlie resulting in the birth of 4 pups that JFK referred to jokingly as pupniks.[9][10] Two of their pups, Butterfly and Streaker were given away to children in the Midwest. The other two puppies, White Tips and Blackie, stayed at the Kennedy home on Squaw Island but were eventually given away to family friends.[8] Pushinka's descendants are still living today.]"

People need real impetus to work hard, which is the only way humans are ever going to get to seriously explore and live in Space. During the Cold War, fear was the main motivator, people worked as hell, but they liked it, they had a feeling of a "cause" and the economy flourished. I wish people could find a way to motivate themselves to work without fear...

tl;dr

Today's kids are lazy...

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah . Totally.

hahahaha do I have to separate you 2 ...

If you seperate us, who will I have to argue with?

You can't do that to us... We're like the best of pals......

you can argue with me lol but i doubt it will go far since i am a marine and you might cry to mommy lol

Go Adamaska, go!

Our political fraction was left out of the NAC government, but the will of the people must be heard! We'll organize rallies, mass protests! Perhaps I should think of some more headlines for The NAC Times LOL

I've been very busy lately (RL), but perhaps we could roleplay an assassination attempt on our beloved PM... A fraction composed of the citizens from Adamaska's and my nation could organize something... No leaders implicated... Shavar could be the gamemaster...

A:The red threat must be neutralized!
B: This cold war just might get hot...
A:Hot as in coffee ---- mmmmmmmmmmmmhhhh, smell that?
B: Oh, i gotta get me a cup a' that!
~reaches for red button with mug in other hand~
A: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
B: Excuse me? You gonna have to learn to share!
A: No, i mean not that button, we dont want to fire the missiles yet.....

lol with what should i assassinate him with a WMD or IED lol i accounted 3 when i was in Iraq for 3 years, lucky i didnt get my ass blown to peaces

I didn't say mass murder, I said assassination, meaning an IED might do the trick but no WMDs. Someone neutral could be the gamemaster, and we could roleplay it. You can use whatever means you wish, it's a roleplay

Adamaska wrote:

you can argue with me lol but i doubt it will go far since i am a marine and you might cry to mommy lol

*eyes narrow* And she'll beat you with a wooden spoon!!

roo wrote:

A:The red threat must be neutralized!
B: This cold war just might get hot...
A:Hot as in coffee ---- mmmmmmmmmmmmhhhh, smell that?
B: Oh, i gotta get me a cup a' that!
~reaches for red button with mug in other hand~
A: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
B: Excuse me? You gonna have to learn to share!
A: No, i mean not that button, we dont want to fire the missiles yet.....

Why'd those missiles go off from Turkey? This wasn't in my American History Book! I think those Russians are evil for placing those missiles in Cuba.

idk maybe there duds and the missles were to scare us