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The time frame wasn't given to answer this question because Russia has been called more than one name. In World War II Russia was called the Soviet Union or the USSR.

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What is now called Russia (from the Finnish "Rus" - Vikings from Sweden) was in Roman times inhabited partly by what the Romans called Slavs, Alans and Eastern Goths.

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USSR- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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