maybe some one of you will know.

[derien]

Can't remember if I put this out here, before, but I'm cleaning off my desk and found a scrap of paper that reminded me...
What did the initials which looked like "CCCP" which the Soviet Union used actually stand for? I know it _meant_ the same as "United Soviet Socialist Republic," but what where the actual words?

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[camwyn]

Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, rendered in the Cyrillic alphabet.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

You won't believe this, but the whole question came up at work one day when we screened someone's hockey gear. It was Canadian, but had some initials on it which reminded one of my co-workers of the Russian hockey team.

[zzbottom.livejournal.com]

"C" is the Russian "S" and "P" is the Russian "R". So, CCCP is actually SSSR. I forget the exact words, it's Something Sovietski Socialist Republique.