what was the soviet union?
Soviet democracy Single-party state Communist state Socialist state
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 Soviet Union . 

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 = = = Beginnings of the Eastern Bloc = = = 

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 Soviet Russia , while at the time publicly supporting Polish and Lithuanian independence , sponsored communist agitators working against the government of the Second Polish Republic , and considered that its eastern borders should approximate those of the defunct Congress Poland . Poles and Lithuanians , on the other hand , inspired by memories of the greatness of the erstwhile Grand Duchy of Lithuania , part of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth , saw their borders as lying much farther east . The leader of the Polish forces , Józef Piłsudski , discerned an opportunity for regaining territories that were once the part of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth , and since then were part of the Prussian Empire , shaken by the 1917 Revolution and the ongoing Russian Civil War . 

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 In 1952 , Stalin repeatedly proposed a plan to unify East and West Germany under a single government chosen in elections supervised by the United Nations if the new Germany were to stay out of Western military alliances , but this proposal was turned down by the Western powers . Some sources dispute the sincerity of the proposal . 

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 The Soviet Union was generally anti @-@ Semitic ; Zionist activities inside its borders were considered treason that could lead to execution , and , after 1967 , Israel was considered an enemy state . It was not until Perestroika that Jewish activists were given freedom to operate . The emigration that took place from 1989 to 1993 is described as a " panic migration " , due to the socio @-@ economic crisis in the Soviet states , rather than a migration of " born @-@ again " Jews . Many of them did not have any relation to Judaism or Zionism in their former place of residence . Most immigrants of this period came from Russia and Ukraine , and to a lesser extent from Belarus and Central Asia . 
