After visiting the USSR in 1931 and meeting Joseph Stalin, Shaw became a supporter of the Stalinist USSR.
I happened to be travelling through the USSR in 1991 when it began to unravel.
I recall vividly her first visit to the USSR in spring 1987.
"I knew Guy Burgess [the spy who defected to the USSR in 1951].
When Vladimir Lenin finally proclaimed the creation of the USSR in 1922, Western powers refused to accept it.
Georgia Independent since the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 – despite a declaration of independence in April.
Before the collapse of the USSR in 1991, only a chosen few could afford the luxury of driving.
Dr Zhivago was published in the West in 1957 and was only permitted in the USSR in 1988.
The former country of Yugoslavia broke up after the fall of the USSR in the 1990s, following years of tension that culminated in the Yugoslav Wars.
He viewed the persecution of writers in the USSR in 1947 as an affront against creativity: "You cannot produce a vigorous literature by terrorising everyone into conformity.
After a draw between the hosts Italy and the USSR in Naples, a place in the final was decided by the flip of a bloody coin.
