Soviet

//ˈsoʊvi.ət//

"Soviet" in a Sentence (28 examples)

Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.

Communism is the system practiced in the Soviet Union.

Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993.

The news was all about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet troops started to withdraw from Afghanistan.

The Soviet Union took a hostile attitude toward us.

Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.

U.S.S.R. stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.

The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.

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They then established the West Hunan-Hupeh (Hsiang-O-Hsi) Special Committee and a little later transformed it into a soviet government. Party membership figures as of 1932 for a dozen counties in the area were estimated at 18,034, with the largest number, 4,468, working in Chienli County, then headquarters of the soviet.

Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night.

Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets, soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and properties.

An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.

Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational […]

The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.

"It felt very soviet, very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.

[…] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.

One tactic was to become more "soviet" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,

Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.

There are 3 kinds of Russian speakers in Estonia: a Those that have taken out Estonian Citizenship, b Those that took out Russian citizenship and are therefore loyal to Russia, c those that have not taken either citizenship and are still very soviet in mindstate.

The major obstacle to a border settlement is the status of Heixiazi, a 330-square kilometer island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The island is claimed by the Chinese but controlled by the USSR. Because Heixiazi overlooks Khabarovsk as well as the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River, the Soviets are reluctant to give it up.

Толчками и скачками дело все же идет к тому, что давно провозглашенный нашей партией переход власти к Советам будет осуществлен.

Later, in the 1980s, western scholars found that, notwithstanding the substantial Soviet military buildup near the Chinese borders in the late 1960s, it was Beijing that initiated the clash on Zhenbao (Damanski) Island.

A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it's a mistake to commemorate someone who presided over so much suffering.

He remained more Soviet than his parents and often accused Gorbachev of having destroyed the Soviet Union on behalf of US intelligence.

Only in the GDR were the returning POWs presumed guilty; there East Germans, attempting to be "more Soviet than the Soviets," […]

It would also be incorrect to creat a "scale of Sovietism", arguing, say, that Gildin was more Soviet than Litvakov, or that Litvakov was more Soviet than Dobrushin. Essentially, they were equally Soviet, even if they saw their Sovietism rather differently: […]

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