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The problem of drawing a distinction between Russians and citizens of the USSR has been solved by borrowing the word Soviet into English as an adjective or a noun meaning a person and not an institution, except rarely as in the designation Supreme Soviet . In Russian Sovét means basically `counsel' and `council' and by extension `assembly'.
And other figures in the Soviet pantheon or nomenclatura were likewise immortalized: Samara became Kuibyshev; Ekaterinburg was renamed Sverdlov; Simbirsk was renamed Ulyanovsk , a derivative of Lenin's original surname; Nizhnii Novgorod was renamed Gorky; and so on across the map of Russia and to a lesser extent of the USSR.
For example, The Columbia Encyclopedia , in an edition last copyrighted in 1940, has an appropriately long entry for “the founder of the USSR” under Lenin, Nikolai . How this mistake came about in the first place no one is certain.
But whereas the changes wrought in French by the French Revolution were canceled by the Thermidorean reaction, in the newly formed and freshly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (more commonly called the USSR or, in Cyrillic, CCCP ) wholesale changes of toponyms, following changes of personal names, did not really set in till the Soviet Thermidor brought Stalin to dictatorial power.
By the end of the 1980s, more than 80 percent of Cuban trade was with the USSR, which also provided Cuba with a subsidy of state support worth an estimated US$5 billion annually.