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TheSoviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз, tr. Sovetskiy Soyuz), also officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik), abbreviated to USSR (in English) and CCCP (in Russian), is a socialist state on the Eurasian continent. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy are highly centralized.

The Soviet Union in its current form was (re-)created on the 20th of December 2016, when the governments of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Abkhazia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, South-Ossetia, Taijikistan, Transnistria, Turkmenistan and Uzbekhistan declared the Belavezha Accords (1991) and the Treaty of the Creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (1992) defunct and invalid, and thus restored the 1989 Constitution of the Soviet Union in force on the entire territory of the former (and now current) Soviet Union. At 20h00 on the 20th of December the red flag with the hammer and sickle was once again raised over the Moscow Kremlin.

The Soviet Union stretches 11 time zones.