The Soviet Union | Part 2: Battle of Moscow to Cuban Missile Crisis | Free Documentary History

The Soviet Union - Part 2: Battle of Moscow to Cuban Missile Crisis | History Documentary Watch ’The Soviet Union - Part 3’ here: The Soviet Union was officially formed in 1922, a country, a political experiment, an ideal, a great scar across history… Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR was a one-party state, governed, controlled, and tormented by a single-party rule. That of the Communist Party. No nation has inflicted such destruction on its own population in the name of progress. Power corroded the leadership, leaving the masses to suffer in the name of history. The very people who were supposed to be governing themselves. There are many factors that affected the Soviet Union’s turbulent history, but the sheer ungovernable vastness of the country was inescapable. It was a nation the size of a continent stretching from Moscow to Vladivostok and from Leningrad to Stalingrad. What we might consider European