1926, from Russian, initialism (acronym) for Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika "Soviet Socialist Republic."
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squiz
*sreu-
Sri Lanka
SRO
SSR
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stab
Stabat Mater
stability
stabilization
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