A supreme deity, supreme god or supreme being is the conception of the sole deity of monotheistic religions, or, in polytheistic or henotheistic religions, the paramount deity or supernatural entity which is above all others. Specifically, the term can …

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the military headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) that commands all NATO operations worldwide. ACO's and SHAPE's commander is titled Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), a U.S. four-star general officer or flag officer who also serves …

The Supreme Soviet was composed of two chambers, each with equal legislative powers, with members elected for four-year terms: The Soviet of the Union, elected on the basis of the population with one deputy for every 300,000 people in the Soviet federation.; The Soviet of Nationalities, which represented the ethnic populations as units, with members elected on the …

Supreme (cookery), a term used in cookery; Supreme, Louisiana, a census-designated place in the United States; Supreme Soviet, the highest legislation body of Soviet Union, dissolved in 1991; Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, car produced by Oldsmobile between 1966 and 1997; Plaxton Supreme, British coach bodywork built in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Historical titles World War I. On 26 March 1918, the French marshal Ferdinand Foch was appointed Supreme Allied Commander, gaining command of all Allied forces everywhere, and coordinated the British, French, American, and Italian armies to stop the German spring offensive, the last large offensive of the German Empire. He was the one who accepted the German …

Powers. The presidency was an executive post, based on a mixture of the US and French presidencies.. Prior to the creation of the post of president, the de jure head of state of the Soviet Union was the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, who was often called the "president" by non-Soviet sources.For most of the Soviet Union's existence, all effective …

The Congress of Soviets was the supreme organ of power in accordance with Article 8 of the 1924 Soviet Constitution. The Congress was replaced in the 1936 Soviet Constitution by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.In accordance with Article 30, it functioned as the highest state authority and the only legislative branch of the Soviet Union. According to Article 108 of …

The military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was established by a decree of the Soviet Cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), on 22 September 1935. On 20 November, the rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Yegorov, …

The Premier of the Soviet Union (Russian: Глава Правительства СССР) was the head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The office had four different names throughout its existence: Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1923–1946), Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1946–1991), Prime Minister (January – August 1991) and ...

Symbolism and design. The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered red star.This symbol is in the upper left canton of the red flag.. The colour red honours the red flag of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the red star and hammer and sickle are symbols of communism and socialism.