Here in the United States, we grew up worrying that the Russians would set up us the bomb. Today in 1922 Vladimir Lenin unified the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Ukrainian National Republic, Belarus National Republic, and Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic into the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (Say that three times fast).
In memory of this one time superpower, here's Paul McCartney live singing Back in the USSR.
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