What is "soviets"

Usage examples of "soviets".

Sure, there were little telltale signs like the Soviets marching through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.

The Venona Project had just gotten under way when trusted Roosevelt advisor Lauchlin Currie informed the Soviets that the Americans were about to crack their code.

Indeed, there were many movies about our friends the Soviets and good old Uncle Joe.

Concededly, Stevenson had watertight proof that the Soviets had moved nuclear missiles to Cuba, miles off the coast of Florida.

Republican president would never have allowed the Soviets to get so far.

Cold War, he cooperated with the Soviets at the Nuremberg Trials, whitewashing their joint aggression with Hitler under the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

On his watch, the Soviets consolidated their control over Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, eastern Germany to the Elbe River, Yugoslavia, and North Korea to the 38th parallel.

With money from the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy, secret Vatican bank accounts, and Western trade unions, Solidarity stirred up a lot of trouble for the Soviets in their Polish republic.

When oil prices plummeted under Reagan, the Soviets were strapped for hard currency.

Still, the Soviet Union could have stumbled along for a few more decades, waiting out the Reagan administration and hoping for a Democrat president to come in and help the Soviets restore their hegemony.

And the Soviets really did have seventy years of barren harvests because of bad weather.

The Soviets were shocked and disheartened to discover that the editorial positions of the New York Times did not accurately reflect the sentiments of the American people.

For his prodigious work in turning over industrial and atomic secrets to the Soviets, see John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven, Conn.

Probing and teasing the hostile air defense networks, they would dart back and forth across sensitive borders, daring the Soviets to react.

It was an area of extreme secrecy, and considered the most likely spot from which the Soviets would launch a nuclear attack.