Which countries were in the Soviet Union?
These are all of the countries that were controlled by the Soviet Union at some point in history. I will be using the modern names of the countries for sake of simplicty:
- Former Soviet Republics and Succestionist Movements
- Russian Federation
- Ukraine
- Republic of Belarus
- Republic of Uzbekistan
- Republic of Kazakhstan
- Georgia
- Republic of South Ossetia/South Ossetian Region
- Republic of Abkhazia/Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
- Republic of Azerbajian
- Republic of Artsakh/Nagerno-Karabakh
- Republic of Lithuania
- Republic of Moldova
- Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic/Transnistria autonomous territorial unit with special legal status
- Republic of Latvia
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Republic of Tajikistan
- Republic of Armenia
- Turkmenistan
- Republic of Estonia
- Military Occupatied Territories
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Federal Republic of Germany (New States)
- Republic of Austria (Soviet Sector)
- Warsaw Pact States (Not technally Soviet rule, but had heavy influence)
- Republic of Bulgaria
- Former Czechloslovakia
- Czech Republic
- Slovak Republic
- Republic of Albania (Eventually split off and made friends with the People’s Republic of China)
- Federal Republic of Germany (New States)
- Hungary
- Republic of Poland
- Republic of Romania