The 30th of December this year marks 100 years since the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was formed as the result of the voluntary coming together of the Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Republics. They were national and multinational states consisting of nations and peoples who had been liberated from the rule of the bourgeoisie by the Great October Revolution in 1917
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