Cold War-era inits

• Letters on an Asian map that is seriously out of date
• Letters on two former UN members' nameplates
• Pre-1991 map abbr
• Former pol. div.
• Ukr. or Est., once
• Initials on old globes
• Bygone map letters
• Abbr. on outdated maps
• Union member of the 20th century, for short

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."