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 | | At that time, republics were technically independent from one another but their governments acted in closely coordinated confederation, as directed by the CPSU leadership. |
 | | One republic, Karelo-Finnish SSR, was disbanded in 1956, and the territory formally became the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) within the Russian SFSR. |
 | | For example, it was acceptable to use the names Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan or Kirgizia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan or Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan -- in which the -stan ending is from a Persian word meaning "country" or "land," and hence, for example, Uzbekistan is Land of the Uzbeks. |
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