Soviet people
Citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Soviet people (Russian: сове́тский наро́д, romanized: sovetsky narod) were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union. This demonym was presented in the ideology of the country as the "new historical unity of peoples of different nationalities" (новая историческая общность людей различных национальностей).[2]
Quick Facts Советский народ, Total population ...
Советский народ | |
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Total population | |
286,730,819 (1989 census) | |
Languages | |
Russian,[1] Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Armenian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Latvian, Estonian, Romanian, Lithuanian, others (see: Languages of the Soviet Union) | |
Religion | |
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Atheism, others (see: Religion in the Soviet Union) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Citizens of the post-Soviet states |
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