Soviet Union declared
December 30, 1922
In a Moscow theater, delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasian republics voted themselves into a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin, already ill from strokes, watched from the sidelines. A new kind of state had been born, one that claimed the whole future as its project. It would last sixty-nine years.
In context
Also in 1922 (6 other events on record)
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- Ottoman Empire abolished · Middle East · Politics
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- BBC founded · Europe · Culture
- Treaty of Rapallo · Europe · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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