Soviet Union 

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The Soviet Union what is now Russia had controlled most of Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union was established in 1945 and fell in 1991. During this time a government took over and was made a communist country.  The first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, was from the Soviet Union and beat everybody to it by far. 

When the Soviet Union took control over Eastern Europe they completely drained out Eastern Europe’s economy completely for military equipment for further domination over other countries.  But during that time the Soviet Union also drained its own economy with all of the military items that they purchased and not paying attention to their economy and every day items people need.  

Cold War 

After World War II, the Soviet Union and the USA (the two super powers of the world) went to war.  It was the most dangerous war ever, but not a single bullet was fired.  What I mean by this is that we could have destroyed the earth because it was a nuclear war.  The two countries had an arms race, like for an example the USA would threaten to fire a nuclear bomb at the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union would come back with a bigger stronger bomb.  Then they would threaten to fire it and then we would come out with something better and threaten to fire at them and so on. 

 At the same time the Soviet Union was taking over a lot of European countries.  So it was really just constant threats going back and forth between the two superpowers.  Since it was between the two superpowers that had the most money is what really made the cold war so dangerous to the world because since these two countries had so much money they could both produce some really powerful weapons to threaten each other with over and over again.

History 

The Soviet Union was first established in 1945 and took over several countries like for example they took over Poland, The Czech Republic, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, ect. After this they developed a form of government. They used communism. People hated this new form of government and the people wanted to tear the union apart. When this didn’t work the people gave up and went through the torture of the government. The USSR Hockey team won the gold in the Olympics in the 1960's. This was a very big deal and people talked about it for months. In 1922 the USSR is born with V. I. Lenin as the dictator.  In 1922-1940 15 other countries joined the Soviet Union. In 1924 Lenin died and Joseph Stalin began to gain power. In 1928 the Union began to rapidly expand. Many other things happened until the fall of the union in 1991 and the countries were free.

Joseph Stalin

Communism 

As you know the Soviet Union was a communist country or thought they were.  Communism is when you try to divide all of the money and power in your country equally but in order to do that you have to give a lot of power to the government.  This form of government almost never works out because first of all you have to give lots of power to the government and most of the leaders go power crazy and forgets about being communist and starts to take advantage of the power to do crazy and unfair things.  Second all of the money is divided equally and so there is no Motivation to work because you get paid anyway.  For example if you were working at a McDonalds you wouldn’t have to do anything but show up at work and just sit there. This usually never works because all the power is in one person’s hand and they can make any rule they want. When this person does this, he or she becomes known as a dictator. Dictators are not always bad, there could be good dictator too but they are usually bad.