The 16 Soviet Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are just the beginning. There are 189 races and peoples in the Soviet Union and they speak 150 languages, practice 40 religions, inhabit 74 assorted regions, territories, autonomous republics and Soviet Republics. Depending on locality, they wear reindeer fur, Moslem veils, ordinary coats and pants. They cover one-sixth of the world's land surface and they number 193 million men, women and children.
Roughly three-quarters of them are Slavs: Great Russians, Ukrainians (or Little Russians), White Russians. These peoples constituted three of the original four republics which joined to...
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