And the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which once threatened western Europe with annihilation now has an archaic and faintly comical ring to it.

WSJ: Gareth Harding: Europe Reborn

The 1922 Treaty on the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will be deemed to have lapsed as of the same date for the republics which have signed it.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

This Memorandum concludes that, following the extinction of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 did not become a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

In fact, the only thing that separated the two main branches of 20th-century totalitarianism was that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was born of an international movement while the National Socialist German Workers Party was explicitly nationalist.

FORBES: Liberal Fascism