Soyuz (faction)

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Union
Союз
Yegor Ligachev
FoundedFebruary 1990 (1990-02)
DissolvedSeptember 1999 (1999-09)
Merged intoRussian All-People's Union
Stalin Bloc – For the USSR
IdeologyNeo-Stalinism
National affiliationCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (until 1991)

Soyuz (Russian: Союз, translated as 'Union') was a faction in the

Yegor Ligachev
, Nikolai Petrushenko, Yevgeny Kogan (Estonian SSR), and Anatoly Checkoyev (Georgian SSR, South Ossetian autonomous region). The faction claimed to have 500 members in the USSR Supreme Soviet.

The group managed to oust Soviet foreign minister

Stalin Bloc — For the USSR coalition.[4]

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