The USSR has 8,649,000 square miles. It was also double the size of the united states. They consisted of 15 republics, and each republic became an independent country.

There can be negatives to having a lot of land, because it can be hard to protect, some areas may not be useful, it's hard to provide services to people who live in areas that are farther away from the cities

- The USSR's military budget is $165 billion and 11% of GNP (Gross National Product) compared to the USA who's military budget is $131 billion and 5% of GNP

- The USSR has

-1398 Continental Ballistic Missile Launchers

- 950 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles

- the total Mega-tonnage of Nuclear Arsenal is 7836

-The USSR spends $7.50 on one yard of Polyester Fabric, this shows that they waste a lot of money 

-The USSR's Gross National Product is 1.47 trillion dollars, when the United States is 2.47 trillion dollars. This shows that they don't make as much money as other countries, their gross national product is about half of the United State's

In the 1903's Joseph Stalin applied the powers of the soviet government to control people who were an opposition to his rule. He woild have crule tourtures and investigations. People would be whipped, exectude and even cut to peices. There were on average 1,000 exicutions daily

This falls under political because these tourtures were made because Joseph Stalin wanted to rule the political world

Below the political cartoon shows that the soviet union was a one-party communist nation thoughout its enitre history. However they wanted to appar to have a democracy so they encouraged voting ansd went thorugh great lenghts to organize thier election. On the right is Joseph Stalin who very obviously scared of the voting machine because he is scared his power will be taken away

The soviet Union was damaged more than other countries in World War II. Most of the war was fought on Russian Territory, over 24 million people died. Since World War II was fought in Russia, they lost a lot of people