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- WORLD, Page 59Back in the U.S.S.S.?
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- "What's in my name to you? It will wither out, like a sad
- sound." That line from Pushkin might describe how some members
- of the legislature of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- feel about . . . well, about the name Union of Soviet Socialist
- Republics. The Supreme Soviet is debating whether the country
- ought to get a new name once the proposed treaty of
- confederation among the 15 constituent republics of the U.S.S.R.
- is approved. Three suggestions: Union of Sovereign Socialist
- States (U.S.S.S.), put forth by none other than Mikhail
- Gorbachev; Union of Euro-Asian Republics, a coinage of the late
- Andrei Sakharov; and Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics, a
- nomination from the floor. That, of course, would retain both
- the word Soviet and the initials U.S.S.R. (or, in the Russian
- language and Cyrillic alphabet, C.C.C.P.). If none of them are
- judged suitable, there is always the Union of Squabbling
- Socialist Republics . . .
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