Over half of the citizens of the Soviet Union were Russian.
Soviet Union = former Russian-led communist state that was the main rival of the United States during the Cold War
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This prevented the WOPR from launching all of the United States' ICBMs at the Soviet Union.†
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Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011
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He and Gita dined at the best restaurants and vacationed at resorts around the Soviet Union.†
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Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018
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She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan.†
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Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007
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Then, in May, the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik III, weighing in at a whopping 2,925 pounds.†
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Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998
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One of the Refus who came over the Dateline from the Soviet Union.†
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Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992
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In 1957, the Soviets launchedSputnik I, casting a shadow of fear across America.†
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Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996
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But our comrades in the Soviet Union won't let him go.†
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998
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Three days before Britain and the Soviets joined forces.†
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Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005
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Even in the finest clinic in the Soviet Union nothing could be done.†
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Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984
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I can see the headline from here: "Germans and Soviets Parade in Poland."†
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Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train, 2013
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Our goal, I suppose, was to obliterate the Soviet Union before they obliterated us.†
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David Baldacci, Zero Day, 2011
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In the east, the Soviets have retaken Minsk; the Polish Home Army is revolting in Warsaw; a few newspapers have become bold enough to suggest that the tide has turned.†
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Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014
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The Soviet Union in 1961 is hardly the place for a man in search of independence and power.†
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Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy, 2012
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The original Soviets, which had been set up all along the line, had long since been overthrown.†
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Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958
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He de scribed what was happening in Afghanistan as a "war between two elephants"—the US and the Soviet Union—not our war, and said that we Pashtuns were "like the grass crushed by the hooves of two fierce beasts."†
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Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013