The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (abbreviated as Byelorussian SSR or BSSR) (Belarusian: Белару́ская Саве́цкая Сацыялісты́чная Рэспу́бліка, Белару́ская ССР Byelaruskaya Savyetskaya Satsyyalistychnaya Respublika, Byelaruskaya SSR; Russian: Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Белорусская ССР Belorusskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, Belorusskaya SSR) was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Un...
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The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (abbreviated as Byelorussian SSR or BSSR) (Belarusian: Белару́ская Саве́цкая Сацыялісты́чная Рэспу́бліка, Белару́ская ССР Byelaruskaya Savyetskaya Satsyyalistychnaya Respublika, Byelaruskaya SSR; Russian: Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Белорусская ССР Belorusskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, Belorusskaya SSR) was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). The BSSR, along with the Ukrainian SSR and the Soviet Union, were founder members of the United Nations Organization in 1945.
The Soviet republic, Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia (SSRB), in the lands of Belarus was declared on 1 January 1919, but it took a few years to define its status. Byelorussia was also one of several Soviet...
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