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  • initialism Borrowed Russian abbreviation of USSR, СССР, the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Note that the Russian letters are not pronounced the same as the English letters of the same shape; the closest approach in English to the Russian pronunciation is SSSR.

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Examples

  • For media, I believe CCCP is better than VLC, and a lot more stable in fact.

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  • The CCCP is decomissioned and Red Saviour gets to do some liaison work.

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  • The CCCP is decomissioned and Red Saviour gets to do some liaison work.

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  • The CCCP is decomissioned and Red Saviour gets to do some liaison work.

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  • In Percy's 1990 novel "Love in the Ruins," a faction of Southern white men called itself the "Christian Conservative Constitutional Party," until some New York smart aleck noticed that the acronym CCCP also appeared on Soviet cosmonauts 'uniforms.

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  • In Percy's 1990 novel "Love in the Ruins," a faction of Southern white men called itself the "Christian Conservative Constitutional Party," until some New York smart aleck noticed that the acronym CCCP also appeared on Soviet cosmonauts 'uniforms.

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  • In Percy's 1990 novel "Love in the Ruins," a faction of Southern white men called itself the "Christian Conservative Constitutional Party," until some New York smart aleck noticed that the acronym CCCP also appeared on Soviet cosmonauts 'uniforms.

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  • In Percy's 1990 novel "Love in the Ruins," a faction of Southern white men called itself the "Christian Conservative Constitutional Party," until some New York smart aleck noticed that the acronym CCCP also appeared on Soviet cosmonauts 'uniforms.

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  • Why is the phrase CCCP fun and edgy, while the merest mention of the Third Reich is bad?

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  • Why is the phrase CCCP fun and edgy, while the merest mention of the Third Reich is bad?

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