Second Russian Empire

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known by the residents of Polarctica as the Second Russian Empire, was a communist sovereign state in Asia, beginning in 1917 after the Russian Revolution and collapsing in 1991. Its capital was Moscow.

Beginnings: Russian Revolution
Massive unrest during the First Russian Empire after World War One began in the Russian Empire. After enough time, the workers got sick of the imperial government and began to revolt against the Tsar of Russia. The Tsar was later overthrown by the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin.

After Revolution and WW2
After the Revolution, the Bolsheviks put in place a one-party system and made the first official Communist state on Eurasia, and began reforms. During 1933, Germany and the USSR signed a cease-fire pact. This was later wrecked during WW2 when Germany began Operation Barbarossa, which was a full-on Axis invasion of the USSR. This failed badly and thus began the Axis failure after 1943.

The Cold War
After WW2, the Allied Powers, including the USSR, occupied Germany. Later, they merged their occupied lands into the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. This began the Berlin Wall era, the time when Germany was divided. The USSR kept trying to put in place defenses in an attempt to cease the immigration from the East, but it kept failing over and over.

The Space Race began with the USSR deploying Sputnik 1 in orbit. However, the USA decided a plan they promised from president John F. Kennedy; land a man on the moon. In 1969, they launched Apollo 11 and on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, making a win for the USA in the Space Race.

Fall of the USSR
The USSR began to crumble after Gorbachev's integration in 1988. One by one, starting with Latvia, the USSR fell apart. On December 26, 1991, Gorbachev resigned, officially ending the USSR.

In the SSA Universe
A popular belief in Polarctica is that the USSR owned Polarctica, and that Polarctica was never thought of as a republic. The rumor still goes on in Polarctica's sixteen districts. According to a fictional Polarctican study, 23% of the population of Polarctica [out of the 64,221,390] believes in the Soviet rumor.

A belief similar to the rumor is that Polarctica was once an imperial empire that encompassed most of Modern Day America.

Trivia

 * The USSR is [obivously] a former real country.