Multiple choice

Who was the first President of the U.S.S.R.?

  1. Alexy Rykov

  2. Joseph Stalin

  3. Vladimir Lenin

  4. Nikita Khrushchev
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Explanation

While Mikhail Gorbachev was the first and only official 'President of the Soviet Union' under that specific title, Vladimir Lenin was the founding leader and head of government of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) established in 1922. In general knowledge contexts, Lenin is widely recognized as the first leader of the Soviet state. The other options were subsequent leaders of the Soviet Union.

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