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sovietize
  1. v. bring under Soviet control, of a country [syn: sovietise]

  2. model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union; "Castro sovietized Cuba" [syn: sovietise]

Usage examples of "sovietize".

Now, by weight of sheer numbers, the original inhabitants began to crowd out the Russian immigrants who had been sent to them by Stalin in the 1930s to change the racial balance and to sovietize them.