CCCP

СССР English Pronunciation en /si.si.si.piː/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-CCCP.wav US Etymology 1 en ru СССР, abbreviation of ru Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (The) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Proper noun ~ en nonstandard sometimes humorous USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics en July 27 1992 Keith Morgan NATO/Warsaw Pact forces (was Re: Greatest Prez...) soc.history Now that the CCCP is history. I wonder if we'll find out who Suvorov really was. en 2008 Martin Avery Bobby Orr and Me Lulu.com 9780557036929 353 Canada won the 1972 Summit Series against the CCCP, just barely, but lost a lot of face, bragging rights, prestige, sense of self, identity, and propaganda points, even though life in the Soviet Union, judging by the big hockey rink in Moscow, was dismal, at best, and a totalitarian police state nightmare, at worst. en September 21 2011 A Moose in Love Re: The Soviet invasion of Poland alt.revisionism The CCCP had evil intentions as well[,] no? 2013, Tom Hanks, introduction to Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by Alexei Leonov and David Scott, Open Road Media 9781480448742 A common generalisation about people who go into space, particularly those men who were the participants in the great space race between the USA and the CCCP, is that each is an automaton — a throttle jockey with a crew cut, a mind like a slide rule and a vocabulary of 'gee whiz' superlatives and 'A-OK' affirmatives. en 2014 Larisa Kharakhinova Heart-to-heart letters: to MrRight from CCCP 22 Litres 9785457226449 One question from Japanese side was: 'What about sex in CCCP?' and 'the illustrious reply' — one soviet woman, very venerable and respectable, deputy and laureate of something, — she answered with dignity: 'There is no sex in CCCP at all!' — it was said with such a great pride, in such a peremptory tone, as if she was insulted in her best feelings, — both sides, both countries split their sides with laughter. en January 7 2015 Kevrob Re: SF influence spreads to real world rec.arts.sf.written Taking the period 1945-1991 as one long war by proxy between the US and its allies and the CCCP and its puppet regimes (and sometimes Red China), the "Korean War" and "the Viet Nam War" can be considered battles or theaters in the larger conflict. Usage notes The Cyrillic letters are not pronounced in the same way as the Latin letters; the closest approach in English to the Russian pronunciation (i.e., /ɛs ɛs ɛs ˈɛr/) (and the transliteration from Russian to English) would be SSSR (pronounced in English as /ɛs ɛs ɛs ˈɑɹ/). Etymology 2 Proper noun en w:Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee of the Communist Party. en 4-letter abbreviations en Soviet Union