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Soviet Union

• Soviet Union was a constitutionally socialist state which existed between 1951 (sport) and 1991.
• It was constituted by 15 republics.

Ex-Soviet Republic	Language	Writing system	Ethnic	Religion	% of Russians
Russia
Kazakhstan	Kazakh	Cyrillic	Turkic	Islam	25% (4 500 000)
Latvia	Latvian	Latin	Baltic	Christianity*	25% (550 000)
Estonia	Estonian	Latin	Uralic	Irreligion	25% (350 000)
Ukraine	Ukrainian	Cyrillic	Slavic	Orthodox Church	20% (9 000 000)
Belarus	Belarus	Cyrillic	Slavic	Orthodox Church	10% (900 000)
Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyz	Cyrillic	Turkic	Islam	10% (550 000)
Moldova	Romanian	Latin	Romance	Orthodox Church	10% (300 000)
Uzbekistan	Uzbek	Latin	Turkic	Islam	5% (1 500 000)
Turkmenistan	Turkmen	Latin	Turkic	Islam	5% (250 000)
Lithuanian	Lithuanian	Latin	Baltic	Catholic Church	5% (150 000)
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani	Latin	Turkic	Irreligion	1% (90 000)
Tajikistan	Tajic / Persian	Cyrillic / Arabic	Persian	Islam	1% (80 000)
Georgia	Georgian	Georgian	Caucasian	Orthodox Church	1% (50 000)
Armenia	Armenian	Armenian	Caucasian	Orthodox Church	1% (30 000)

• Soviets were sometimes called Russians what was wrong and proof of the fact that author had no idea what was he talking about.

1951-1991	1992	1993-xxx
Soviet Union	Commonwealth of Independent States Lithuania Latvia Estonia	Russia Kazakhstan Ukraine Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Belarus Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Azerbaijan Georgia Lithuania Latvia Estonia Moldova Armenia