pro-Soviet

adjective

1. in favour of or supporting anything of, characteristic of, or relating to the former Soviet Union, its people, or its government

Example Sentences

Its leader, Anwar Sadat, expelled Soviet officers, trashed Soviet weapons, and dropped its pro-Soviet policy—and instead bought American weapons, sent their officers to American military academies, and pursued pro-Western policies.

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Some may be tempted to dust off their old copies of L'Express from the Grumbach years in search of subliminal pro-Soviet messaging.

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The Korean Peninsula was divided into the pro-Soviet North and the pro-U.S.

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Mr Trong calls this "bamboo diplomacy", a flexible foreign policy in line with the four "Nos" that have defined Vietnam's approach after it ended its pro-Soviet isolation in 1986: no military alliances, no siding with one country against another, no foreign military bases on Vietnamese territory, no use of force in international relations.

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Mid-1950s though 1960s — The Soviet Union continues to provide economic and military assistance to North Korea, but their relations decline as Kim Il Sung violently purges pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese factions within the North’s leadership to consolidate his power.

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