Minor side note, soviet isn’t a corruption but a transcription using English ortography. The same word is transcribed as sowiet in Polish, sovět in Czech and sovjet in southern slavic languages.
Major side note is that a country needing to emphasize it’s alleged democratic status in the name usually isn’t democratic.
Minor side note “USSR” / “CCCP” kinda just translates to “democratic union, democratic union, democratic union, democratic union”
Soviet is a corruption of sovet meaning democratic assembly.
Minor side note, soviet isn’t a corruption but a transcription using English ortography. The same word is transcribed as sowiet in Polish, sovět in Czech and sovjet in southern slavic languages.
Major side note is that a country needing to emphasize it’s alleged democratic status in the name usually isn’t democratic.
how does it translate to “democratic union, democratic union, democratic union, democratic union”???
Sojus Sowjetskich Sozialistitscheskich Respublik - Union of socialist council republics
There isn’t even a single ‘democratic’ in the name, yet alone 4
i was just being wry, not offering a serious translation service