pro-Soviet
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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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