First there was ** or first came the USSR? First there was **, then there was the USSR. The USSR was built on the basis of **.
To figure out whether there was a ** or the USSR first, we have to go back to history itself.
*Also known as Russia (Russian Empire, Tsar**), etc. It is a dynasty in the history of Russia.
In 1547, Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy was crowned Tsar. In 1721, after the victory of Peter I in the Great Northern War with the Kingdom of Sweden, he was awarded the title of "Emperor of All Russia" by the Russian Senate on October 22, and Russia officially became an empire in the true sense of the word. It was further strengthened in the mid-to-late 18th century during the reign of Catherine II.
During the reign of Alexander I, the empire was at its peak. Participated in the anti-French alliance against Napoleon and became the leader of the Holy League after the war, after which he played the role of the "gendarme of Europe" for a long time.
It was not until the defeat in the Crimean War in the middle of the XIX century that the shortcomings of serfdom became apparent, and in 1917 it perished, the October Revolution. The Russian Empire existed for a total of 374 years, from 1547 to 1917.
Founded on December 30, 1922, the Soviet Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, led by Lenin, was a federal socialist country that existed from 1922 to 1991, and was also the largest country in the world at that time, covering most of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and North Asia.
The Soviet Union consisted of 15 union republics with equal rights on the principle of voluntary union, and the territory covered most of Eastern Europe. Borders with Norway, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia and North Korea; It is separated from Sweden, Japan, and the United States across the sea. Governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Historically, the Soviet Union lasted a total of 69 years from its establishment to its collapse.