Soviet life

~ rwklose
From the Evening Star of Washington, D.C., Dec. 31, 1922

On this day (Dec. 30), 100 years ago, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is born at the All-Russian Congress in Moscow.

There was very little coverage of the event in the U.S. press at the time — and nothing on the announcement in the St. Louis press until early 1923, when the Post-Dispatch ran a photo of the Red Army moving into Vladivostok.

The dissolution of the USSR, 69 years later, would be front-page news around the globe.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 9, 1923

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