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Soviet Socialist Republic

[ soh-vee-it soh-shuh-list ri-puhb-lik ]

noun

  1. a designation for any of the former countries that became centrally administered by the Soviet Union:

    Now citizens of a free Estonia, they remember the limitations of growing up in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Soviet Socialist Republic1

First recorded in 1915–20

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SovietsSoviet Union