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pro-Soviet

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adjective

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There are plaster figurines of women throwing stones at pro-Soviet government forces, or tending to wounded fighters, with one passing a rifle to a man.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

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.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2025

Her widowed mother took her North Korean family to the South in 1948, three years after Korea was liberated from Japanese colonial rule and divided into the pro-Soviet North and the pro-American South.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

In 1970, he wrote The Guinea Pigs - a bleakly comic novel about the cynicism pervading everyday life in the years after the pro-Soviet crackdown.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2015

We couldn't make out whether the sentries were pro-Government or pro-Soviet.

From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John

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