A Soviet-era state corporation or cooperative organization, literally meaning 'central union' in Russian.
From Russian 'tsentralʹnyy' (central) + 'soyuz' (union or cooperative). This is a borrowed term from Soviet Russian reflecting the naming conventions of state economic organizations during the communist era.
These organizations were the backbone of Soviet commerce—they controlled everything from consumer goods to agricultural distribution, representing a radically different economic model from Western capitalism.
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