<P> The Soviet Union suffered greatly in the war , losing around 27 million people . Approximately 2.8 million Soviet POWs died of starvation , mistreatment , or executions in just eight months of 1941 -- 42 . During the war , the Soviet Union together with the United States , the United Kingdom and China were considered as the Big Four of Allied powers in World War II and later became the Four Policemen which was the foundation of the United Nations Security Council . It emerged as a superpower in the post-war period . Once denied diplomatic recognition by the Western world , the Soviet Union had official relations with practically every nation by the late 1940s . A member of the United Nations at its foundation in 1945 , the Soviet Union became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council , which gave it the right to veto any of its resolutions . </P>
<P> The Soviet Union suffered greatly in the war , losing around 27 million people . Approximately 2.8 million Soviet POWs died of starvation , mistreatment , or executions in just eight months of 1941 -- 42 . During the war , the Soviet Union together with the United States , the United Kingdom and China were considered as the Big Four of Allied powers in World War II and later became the Four Policemen which was the foundation of the United Nations Security Council . It emerged as a superpower in the post-war period . Once denied diplomatic recognition by the Western world , the Soviet Union had official relations with practically every nation by the late 1940s . A member of the United Nations at its foundation in 1945 , the Soviet Union became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council , which gave it the right to veto any of its resolutions . </P>
the us and the soviet union became important members in
the us and the soviet union became important members in
the United Nations
the United Nations