Demographics of the Soviet Union

According to data from the 1989 Soviet census, the population of the USSR was made up of 70% East Slavs, 17% Turkic peoples, with no other single ethnic group making up more than 2%. Alongside the atheist majority of 60%, there were sizable minorities of Russian Orthodox Christians (approximately 20%) and Muslims (approximately 15%).

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