The president when the Snowden leak occurred was Obama
The Union<span> of </span>Soviet<span> Socialist Republics (</span>USSR<span>) was </span>founded<span> in November 1917 by the Bolshevik Party. Led by Vladimir Lenin and, after 1923, by Josef Stalin, the Bolsheviks
</span>established<span> Communist rule in the former Russian Empire after the conclusion of a bitter civil war in 1921.
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They tied states together with their economy
