1. Soviet Union - Noun
2. Soviet Union - Proper noun
a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
Source: WordNetYou know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. Tom DeLay
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. Terry Eagleton
...They are countries that were formerly part of either the Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact. We call them NATO's Komsomol. Dmitry Rogozin
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures. J. William Fulbright
All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews. Anastas Mikoyan