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Young Soviet conscript, wearing 1968 KLMK camouflage overalls

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A young Soviet conscript wearing the 1968–1969 Kamuflirovannyy letniy maskirovochnyy kombinezon (trans. Russian: 'camouflaged summer concealing overalls', KLMK) camouflage coverall. Allegedly the pattern was dubbed 'solnechnyye zaychiki' ('sun bunnies'} by Soviet soldiers because it reminded them of the bright spots created by sunlight falling through a forest canopy. [Image: Leonid Yakutin.]

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Союз Советских Социалистических Республик

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also called the Soviet Union and USSR, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR grew to contain 15 constituent or 'union republics' by 1956: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR. (From annexation of the Estonian SSR on 6 August 1940 up to the reorganisation of the Karelo–Finnish SSR into the Karelian ASSR on 16 July 1956, the count of 'union republics' was 16.)

camouflage patterns of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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