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soviet

[soh-vee-et, -it, soh-vee-et] / ˈsoʊ viˌɛt, -ɪt, ˌsoʊ viˈɛt /


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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

Others relate to soviet spy George Blake’s audacious 1966 escape from Wormwood Scrubs using a knitting needle ladder.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2019

Bavaria proclaimed itself a socialist republic; a soviet took over in Cologne.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018

Then they head the rumble of soviet tanks at the gates of the camp.

From BBC ● May 6, 2015

The soviet governments, the other Governments which have been set up on the territory of the former Russian Empire and Finland, to give a general amnesty to all political opponents, offenders, and prisoners.

From The Bullitt Mission to Russia by William C. (William Christian) Bullitt

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 rural, county, provincial, regional, and All-Russian soviets are elected indirectly, and the people have no direct vote in the election.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns


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