There was also a country in the world which was divided into 15 countries.
Independence Day 2025: After snatching power from the Mughals, the British rule persecuted the people of India a lot. Looted every resource in the country and continued to progress in England. Finally, India broke the shackles of slavery, India gained independence on 14 August 1947, then the British once again moved and divided the country into two pieces. India and Pakistan emerged two countries. However, years after this incident, another country was divided, with 15 pieces.
It was called the world’s largest partition. This partition was of the Soviet Union, which broke and became 15 different countries. Let’s know the full story of this partition.
Soviet Union was spread over 2.2 million sq km
We usually know the Soviet Socialist Republic Association (USSR) as the Soviet Union. It was formed in the year 1922. It was a socialist association, which included many republics. Of these, Russia was the chief and its rule was in the hands of the Communist Party. If the Soviet Union disintegrated in the year 1991, it became the largest partition in the world according to the area. Earlier, the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world. Its area was 2.2 million square kilometers.
These 15 countries have been formed when the divide was done
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 15 different independent countries became. These include Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Moldova. Now these countries have different power and independent existence.
Russian revolution ends the rule of jar
Like all the countries of the world, there was dictatorship in Russia before the formation of the Soviet Union. It is known as Jarshahi or Jarist rule. The ruler there was called a jar. The jar was actually the ruler of the Romanov dynasty, who ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917. He had complete control and strength over the local society with governance and army.
However, due to increasing inequality and economic difficulties among the people during the rule of jar, dissatisfaction started to grow. As a result, a revolution started in Russia. In February 1917, protests and strikes started against the jar. As a result of this revolution, Jar Nicholas II had to give up power and a provisional government was formed. This did not solve this completely and the October revolution led by Lenin and Trotsky took place. After this, the existence of the provisional government ended and Soviet rule started.
The Soviet Union broke and divided into 15 countries.
Soviet Union established in the year 1922
Despite this, Russia continued to burn in civil war and from 1918 to 1922, the Red Army had to fight with forces opposing Bolsheviks. In the end Bolshevik won. This strengthened Bolshevik and moved towards the integrated state. This is a matter of 30 December 1922. For the first time in the world, the official announcement of the formation of the Soviet Socialist Republic Association (USSR) was made under communist rule. The centralized economic planning and communist rule led by Lenin began.
Three independent countries made part of the Soviet Union
This is a matter of the second world. The Soviet Union had to get into the war even after not wanting. In 1940, three Baltic states Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia were forcibly made part of the Soviet Union after the Treaty of Molotov-Ribntrop, which was freedom in 1918. After the Second World War, the USSR became a superpower and started leading the socialist block.
Why was there a distribution?
It became such a big country but it was very difficult to run it. Due to this, the Soviet Union started lagging behind in terms of economy, productivity and technology by the 1970s. The army and satellite states were given more emphasis and excessive exploitation of resources started. Despite the government giving subsidy to maintain the minimum standard of living in the country, there was dissatisfaction among the citizens due to lack of goods.
The Communist Party began to weaken from this and by the year 1990, nationalist movements started flourishing in Ukraine and Lithuania etc. The control of the Soviet Union weakened due to the arms race to combat the US, the defeat in Afghanistan and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, due to all this, the resulting dissatisfaction arising out that the Soviet Union dissolved in many independent states (countries) in December 1991.
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