Belarus is the former Soviet Socialist Republic, with its capital at Minsk (Minsk), also called White Russia, which is still strongly linked to Moscow.
The Soviet Union was officially the Union of Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union [o] (USSR) and was a transcontinental country that spanned most of the Eurasian continent from 1922 to 1991. A model communist country, nominally 15 republican federal federations. [q] In reality, both the government and the economy were highly centralized until the last year.
It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the city of Moscow served as the capital of its largest and most populous republic, the Russian SFSR. Other major cities were Leningrad (Russian SSR), Kieu (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Belarussian SSR), Tashkent (Usbeck SSR), Almaty (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SSR). It covered more than 22,402,200 square kilometers (8,649,500 square miles) and was the largest country in the world with 11 time zones.
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