Old geopolitical abbr

• Ukraine, e.g., formerly: Abbr
• Lith., e.g., once
• Former red state: Abbr
• One-time communist land, briefly
• Lithuania or Latvia, once (Abbr.)
• Soviet unit: Abbr
• Abbr. on old Eurasian maps
• Ukr., before 1991
• Former geopolitical letters

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, from Russian, initialism (acronym) for Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika "Soviet Socialist Republic."