Soviets

/ ˈsɒv-, ˈsəʊvɪəts /

noun

1. the people or government of the former Soviet Union

Example Sentences

He upended arms control, directing historic unilateral cuts that the Soviets mimicked.

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“This is like arguing that it would not have mattered if the Soviets beat the U.S. to a nuclear weapon,” the committee wrote on X.

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When the Soviets followed with their own invasion, it led to half a century under Moscow’s heel.

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Mr Banayee says he was waiting for a call to fight soldiers loyal to Ahmad Shah Massoud, a former mujahideen commander who had fought the Soviets and was now resisting the Taliban in northern Afghanistan.

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The Soviets took control of the North and the US, the South, where they set up a military administration until 1948.

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