soviet
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The ambassador drew a parallel with the Baltic nations and other former soviet republics that declared independence from Moscow when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
That included soviet era tanks, air defence systems and ammunition.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2022
But even there he found a soldiers’ soviet, and troops who refused to salute their officers.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
Formerly housing a number of soviet ministries, this collection of interconnected buildings and courtyards has been roofed over and remodelled as an extension of the Hermitage.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2014
The local soviet is a gang of ruffians, but they do keep things more or less ship-shape.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
Can you discuss incorporating the film's themes about race, the soviets, the government, surveillance and conformity, and free will?
From Salon ● May 29, 2020
As the delegates talked, Germany continued to collapse from within: inspired by the Russian Revolution, workers and soldiers were forming soviets, or councils.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
StevenSigmon The CIA trained Afghans to use pressure cookers against the soviets.
From Time ● Apr. 16, 2013
Lenin and the Bolsheviks soon gained control of the Petrograd soviet, as well as the soviets in other major Russian cities.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The people have no direct vote or voice in government, except the farmers in their local rural soviets and the city dwellers in their urban soviets.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Jahns, Lewis E.
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