The Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз, tr. Sovetsky Soyuz), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR; Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; IPA: [sɐˈjus sɐˈvʲetskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪˈstʲitɕɪskʲɪx rʲɪsˈpublʲɪk] ( listen); abbreviated СССР, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1990. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly centralized government and economy.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused the downfall of the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a struggle for power between the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the anti-communist White movement. In December 1922, the Bolsheviks won the civil war, and the Soviet Union was formed with the merger of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Edward "Eddy" Huntington (born 29 October 1965) is a pop singer from the UK, popular in Europe and the former USSR.
Huntington was born in the north east of England and moved to London at the age of 18, where he became a music video extra and model.
He was discovered by Baby Records, an Italian record label who took him to Milan to record the song "USSR" written by R. Turatti, M. Chieregato and T. Hooker.
When "USSR" was released throughout Europe in 1986 on ZYX Records it became a hit in mainland Europe and in the Soviet Union and is widely popular to this day. Huntington went on to have other lesser known hits such as "May Day" and "Meet My Friend". He also released the album Bang Bang Baby in 1989.
Huntington left the music industry in the early 1990s and trained to become a primary school teacher in the UK. He taught at Eldon Grove Primary School in Hartlepool teaching children in year 1. He provided after school drama and singing lessons as well as everyday lessons. He then moved to Thailand for 2 years with his wife teaching at Bangkok Patana School. There his youngest son was born, which prompted a move back to England, where he is the deputy head of a community primary school.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, tr. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov; IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲejəvʲɪtɕ ɡərbɐˈtɕof] ( listen); born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule.
Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant Ukrainian–Russian family, and in his teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and soon became very active within it. In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the deaths of Soviet Leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.
(Verse)
My heart beats like a bloody sting
Tie me down with the tightest string
Walking alone through the cemetery
Girl you alone sitting next to me
(Chorus)
Giving you up is the hardest thing wow
You your games and your subtleties wow
You alone in the summer's breeze girl
(Verse)
We take for granted this security wow
A familiarity the luxury wow
We're stuck here arguing the same old thing wow
Locked alone in our tendencies
(Verse)
And the frantic seizure in the city street wow
The children dance 'till the silence beat wow
You alone in the neo heathen throne
(Verse)
Back again in the same routine wow
Familiar habities and activites wow
Mammal insticits,procurities wow
All alone in our sanctity
(Chorus)
Giving you up is the hardest thing
You we're never ever meant to leave home
Day in the night
taking places in the train to Moscow
Now I'm coming back to drink some iced vodka.
Landscape in white
sun is shining through the icicles
I'm dancing in the snow to balalaikas.
Time can go by but the Russian girls
don't ever seem to leave my mind
Fine
don't see why I should even try
to leave my heart behind.
U.S.S.R. - I'm back into the U.S.S.R.
U.S.S.R. - I'm back into the U.S.S.R.!
Jumpin' is right
now this time I'm on vacation
And I'm going to have some fun rocking in Gorki Park.
Time can go by but the Russian girls
don't ever seem to leave my mind
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U.S.S.R. - I'm back into the U.S.S.R.
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U.S.S.R. - I'm back into the U.S.S.R.
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U.S.S.R. - I'm back into the U.S.S.R.