Ukraine, former soviet republic was part of the USSR.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a union of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation, is founded on December 30, 1922, in post-revolutionary Russia. The new communist state, often known as the Soviet Union, succeeded the Russian Empire and was the first nation in the world to be built on Marxist socialism.
The Russian-dominated Soviet Union expanded to include 15 republics and became one of the most powerful and important nations in the world in the decades that followed its founding. Following the demise of its communist regime, the Soviet Union was dismantled in 1991.
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