Islam in the Soviet Union
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Islam in the Soviet Union was the country's second-largest religion, and 90% of Muslims were adherents of Sunni Islam, with only around 10% adhering to Shia Islam. Excluding the Azerbaijan SSR, which
Demographic distribution of Muslims within the Soviet Union, as a percentage of the population by administrative division (1979)
"I am free now!" communist propaganda poster by an unknown artist, encouraging the young women of Soviet Turkestan to join the Komsomol. Issued in Moscow in 1921.
Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the w
Islam in the Soviet Union
…Islam in the Soviet Union was the country's second-largest religion, and 90% of Muslims were adherents of Sunni Islam, with only around 10% adhering to Shia Islam. Excluding the…
Landscape near Karabash, Chelyabinsk Oblast, an area that was previously covered with forests until acid rainfall from a nearby copper smelter killed all vegetation
One of the many impacts of the approach to the environment in the USSR and post-Soviet states is the Aral Sea. (See status in 1989 and 2014)
Military parade on the Red Square in Moscow, 7 November 1964
The Grand Kremlin Palace, the seat of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, 1982