Soviet Union
One-party communist state
Soviet Union leans hardest toward Authority, Order and Hawk.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Formally a federation of republics, in practice run from Moscow.
One-party dictatorship of the Communist Party.
Secret police, censorship and labour camps.
Proletarian internationalism in rhetoric, jealous guarding of Soviet sovereignty in practice.
Superpower army, universal conscription, interventions from Hungary to Afghanistan.
Early support for minority cultures gave way to Russification.
Abolished private ownership of the means of production; enterprises run by the state, not workers.
Central planning of prices, wages and investment.
State monopoly of foreign trade and a drive for autarky.
State atheism and persecution of religion.
Abortion legal for most of its history; homosexuality criminalised.
Space race and nuclear power; industry over nature (the Aral Sea).
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