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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.†   (source)
  • The only constraint on the arms race that remains is the nineteen seventy-two Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Once Georgi started you were in for a twenty-minute discourse on the former Soviet Union, waterfront property in Bulgaria, and his various cross-country motorhome trips with his wife Albena, who had passed away years ago and was greatly missed.†   (source)
  • They reasoned that eastern Poland, closer to the Soviets, would be safer than the west, with its proximity to Germany.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when he went down to put the kettle on, and didn't return, I found them arguing happily in the kitchen like a pair of actors in a stage production, about the dissolution of the Soviet Union or whatever.†   (source)
  • But our comrades in the Soviet Union won't let him go.†   (source)
  • The Dark Elders valued their privacy; their preference was for quiet, out-of-the-way places small islands, patches of desert, countries like Switzerland, portions of the former Soviet Union, the arctic reaches of Canada, Himalayan temples and the Brazilian jungle.†   (source)
  • Even in the finest clinic in the Soviet Union nothing could be done.†   (source)
  • Lin Biao had been trying to flee to the Soviet Union when his evil motives were discovered.†   (source)
  • One of the Refus who came over the Dateline from the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • The Pashtuns were the tribe who refused to buckle under to the army of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Lumumba, after turning to the Soviet Union for backing, was tortured and killed by a commander named Joseph Desire Mobutu, an act done with the blessing, if not the outright aid, of the CIA.†   (source)
  • Germany had invaded the Soviet Union on Midsummer Eve.†   (source)
  • Philby had not yet been revealed as a Soviet spy, but two of his colleagues, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, had just defected to the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • I can see the headline from here: "Germans and Soviets Parade in Poland."†   (source)
  • Then, in May, the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik III, weighing in at a whopping 2,925 pounds.†   (source)
  • One of them, they explained, had been a fisherman on the coast; the other had been taken as a child to Sweden by his parents when the Soviets were established in Estonia.†   (source)
  • He had never sought the dissolution of the Soviet Union and never renounced his fundamental commitment to Marxism-Leninism.†   (source)
  • This fight is every bit as significant as the struggles against the fascism of the Third Reich and the murderous communism of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • They were meant to prove not merely that emigres had bad things to say about the Soviet Union (which neither surprised nor upset anyone in the country), but that they call one another names and make free use of dirty words.†   (source)
  • It seems the Soviet Union has conducted an atomic test at a secret location somewhere inside its own borders.†   (source)
  • Goldfarb was a rumpled-looking microbiologist, a former refusenik in the latter days of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Of all the Communist leaders deposed in the years bracketing the collapse of the Soviet Union, only Nicolae Ceausescu met a violent death.†   (source)
  • Oswald is fond of being on the move, but the Soviets have severely restricted his travel.†   (source)
  • Its contracts with the former Soviet Union were at one time quite controversial.†   (source)
  • Japan's military leaders calculated that Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 would be successful.†   (source)
  • Many of the Wazir men had fought alongside American Special Forces in their crusade to drive the Soviets from Pashtun lands in Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • "Sputnik," their father said, "was the Russians—the Soviet Union, back then.†   (source)
  • There was a story about an American arms shipment to Greece and the subsequent debate in the United Nations; the Soviets protested.†   (source)
  • Cautery will require the United States to inform the Soviet Union of what has happened and to advise that the Russians themselves destroy the city.†   (source)
  • Marxists gave serious attention to national liberation movements and the Soviet Union in particular supported the national struggles of many colonial peoples.†   (source)
  • Hungary was overrun by the Soviets; Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal; the Chinese were supporting the Viet Minh against the French in Indochina; and the CIA had briefed Herter that the Soviets were working on a rocket that could carry a nuclear weapon thousands of miles right to the American heartland.†   (source)
  • When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Bin Laden relocated to Peshawar, Pakistan, and later Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • While serving in the Polish Army during World War II, he was captured by the Soviets but managed to escape and went on to join the Royal Air Force.†   (source)
  • APRIL 9 (UPI) —Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentenced to die for transmitting A-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, received a pre-Passover visit at Sing Sing prison from their 5 —and 9-year-old sons.†   (source)
  • Our goal, I suppose, was to obliterate the Soviet Union before they obliterated us.†   (source)
  • Old Soviets know.†   (source)
  • Carter's fingerprints were on many of the Agency's greatest failures, from the failure to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union to the botched National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and yet somehow he endured.†   (source)
  • Iron Curtain countries excluding the Soviet Union and China.†   (source)
  • The Soviets may have had other plans.†   (source)
  • The line that continued upward after the intersection belonged to the Soviet Union, and the time of the intersection was right then.†   (source)
  • He still hasn't grown up and settled down, even though he has captured district after district for the Soviets from Komuch.†   (source)
  • In 1962, when he discovered that the Soviets were building offensive nuclear missile bases in Cuba, President Kennedy resisted calls for an immediate air strike and pursued a course of diplomacy that averted the catastrophe of nuclear war.†   (source)
  • She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The Soviet Union crumbled with astonishing swiftness.†   (source)
  • I stood and watched them, the once confident troops now dejected prisoners of the Soviets.†   (source)
  • He and Gita dined at the best restaurants and vacationed at resorts around the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • "The Soviets said they wouldn't test any weapons until the U.S. tested first," I told the canon.†   (source)
  • Was it possible that the United States and the Soviet Union were both victims of a third party?†   (source)
  • The three of them stole away while Mammy and Babi stood watching the Soviets.†   (source)
  • "In the Soviet Union," Borodin pointed out, "doctors are paid about the same as factory workers."†   (source)
  • We waited in limbo after Schindler's departure for the arrival of the Soviets.†   (source)
  • It was odd that such men should come from the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • With the danger of capture by the Soviets imminent, Schindler knew he had to flee.†   (source)
  • After the war, the Soviets fell apart, and the West moved on.†   (source)
  • Had the Soviets captured him, they would have seen him only as a Nazi and would have killed him.†   (source)
  • There were rumors about that, but in the Soviet Union there are always rumors.†   (source)
  • This was back in March 1979, about nine months before the Soviets invaded.†   (source)
  • They will be returned to the Soviet Union as quickly as we can arrange it.†   (source)
  • The Soviets killed him in 1982, just outside of Helmand.†   (source)
  • You know that, the Soviet Union buys our grain.†   (source)
  • Now that the Soviets have collapsed, we're no use to them.†   (source)
  • Najibullah is the Soviets' puppet president.†   (source)
  • Four separate times he had been offered extraction from the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • If not for the Mujahideen, we'd still be the Soviets' servants, remember.†   (source)
  • Crippled arm or not, it was said that Filitov was among the best gunners in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • All the guns the CIA handed him in the eighties to fight the Soviets.†   (source)
  • Only a few years before, the forty-hour week had been started in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Within nine months, there won't be any more Soviets in Afghanistan!†   (source)
  • "That is the property of the Soviet Union," Kaganovich pointed out.†   (source)
  • Then why don't the Soviets copy our screw designs?†   (source)
  • If anything, I'd say the Soviets have the advantage.†   (source)
  • Ramius is about the best the Soviets have, but Wilson's got a 688 boat.†   (source)
  • When do we make contact with the Soviets?†   (source)
  • Ryan wondered how difficult it was for the Soviets.†   (source)
  • Okay, the Soviets have a new missile boat with a silent drive system.†   (source)
  • Any electronic noise might alert the Soviets.†   (source)
  • The Soviets depend on political control of their military as much as we do—more.†   (source)
  • The Soviets were now a hundred miles ahead, within Tomahawk range but well beyond everything else.†   (source)
  • The Soviets will expect that we have not been completely truthful with them on this affair.†   (source)
  • The Soviets train people to do their jobs by rote, with as little thinking as possible.†   (source)
  • "If the Soviets find out," Donaldson said, and stopped.†   (source)
  • The Soviets can't have an organization investigating itself—not in their intelligence community!†   (source)
  • If the Soviets find out who did it, their reaction will be nasty—depend on it.†   (source)
  • The Soviets had expected that their arrival would be a quiet one given the time of day.†   (source)
  • "So, the Polish intelligence service has played a trick on the Soviets," Donaldson summarized.†   (source)
  • Next thing is, we'll have to talk to the Soviets about this.†   (source)
  • For one thing, if word leaked out, would the Soviets believe we're not involved?†   (source)
  • The amazing thing is that the Soviets went for it.†   (source)
  • Since the air force had staged its mock attack the Soviets had been acting like sheep.†   (source)
  • We can't control these changes any more than the Soviets or the Chinese can.'†   (source)
  • He also neglected to tell his employer about his time in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • By the end of the war, the Americans and the Soviets have developed significant bioweapons programs.†   (source)
  • Because he was a Muslim, it was his duty to fight the invading Soviets, he claimed.†   (source)
  • ...I want every station and listening post on the borders of the Soviet Union on full alert.†   (source)
  • And it held us together, the Soviets and us.†   (source)
  • As far as I understand it, it's not a unique situation in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse.†   (source)
  • "Or by Cain with far less risk to the Soviets," argued the CIA man.†   (source)
  • The Soviets dropped an H-bomb in the Antarctic called the Tsar.†   (source)
  • After the end of the Soviet Union he became, like many others, a full-time gangster.†   (source)
  • They had been mujahadeen, he decided, veterans of the Afghan guerilla war against the Soviets.†   (source)
  • I'm an upstanding citizen of the Soviet Union, please remember that.†   (source)
  • The Soviets do it all the time; they don't even bother to hide it.†   (source)
  • The Soviet Union in 1961 is hardly the place for a man in search of independence and power.†   (source)
  • By announcing first, we prevent the Soviets from putting their own sweet spin on the event.†   (source)
  • There's a new realpolitik in Europe since the Soviet Union collapsed.†   (source)
  • The moment the Soviet Union collapsed he became uninteresting.†   (source)
  • It was not something you would have studied in Novgorod; the Soviets had no such accommodations.†   (source)
  • He was an agent for the Soviets' GRU and defected to Sweden on Election Day in 1976.†   (source)
  • That he's a hit man who defected from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.†   (source)
  • Anything that distracted or in any way diminished the United States was good for the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • The Soviets always wanted bigger yield, bigger stockpiles.†   (source)
  • "The presence of the Soviets was both alarming and enigmatic," continued the count.†   (source)
  • He told reporters that the police were after him only because he had lived in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan by birth, rejected terrorist, whom even the Soviets could not handle.†   (source)
  • All too frequently to the Soviets, if only to prove to them how rash they were to expel him.†   (source)
  • Americans are terrified of the Soviet Union and its arsenal of nuclear weapons.†   (source)
  • It is below my rank, but all Americans think all Soviets in Komitet are 'colonel,' da?†   (source)
  • I simply consider his years, his struggles, his hatred of the Soviets, and avoid the subject.†   (source)
  • Marina Oswald never returned to the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • lie presses Oswald again and again as to why he went to the Soviet Union in the first place.†   (source)
  • Oswald has temporarily abandoned plans to return to the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Or so thinks Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Failure to do so would make Khrushchev and the Soviet Union an international laughingstock.†   (source)
  • JFK's speech that day was so outstanding that even the Soviets applauded.†   (source)
  • Unlike the majority of his peers, Oswald believes that the Soviets have every right to be in Cuba.†   (source)
  • The Soviets, however, were unsure of the intelligence and didn't pass along the news to Castro.†   (source)
  • The original Soviets, which had been set up all along the line, had long since been overthrown.†   (source)
  • Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself.†   (source)
  • For many months, the Soviets refused to bargain in earnestness.†   (source)
  • One evening, a slightly tipsy visiting professor named Chatelard asks Pari what she thinks will happen to Afghanistan when the Soviets leave.†   (source)
  • He made Afghanistan a rallying point not only for the West, which wanted to stop the spread of communism from the Soviet Union, but also for Muslims from Sudan to Tajikistan, who saw it as a fellow Islamic country under attack from infidels.†   (source)
  • So the agencies, encouraged by the success of that early round of resettlement, brought in other refugees—survivors of the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, and oppressed minorities from the former Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • He was killed in February 1940—just before the peace treaty with the Soviet Union—and thereby became a martyr in the Nazi movement and had a battle group named after him.†   (source)
  • That they are cousins, that their families fled after the Soviets rolled in, that they spent a year in Pakistan before settling in California in the early eighties.†   (source)
  • I was of course aware that the people of the Soviet Union were still living behind the Iron Curtain, but nevertheless, once there I was surprised at just how much the Russian people were starved of freedom.†   (source)
  • Their original leader was a village clergyman named Mullah Mohammad Omar, a tough guy who lost his right eye fighting the occupying forces of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.†   (source)
  • In those early years of the Soviet Union, how did the Bolsheviks countenance the idea of gilded chairs and Louis Quatorze dressers in the mansions of starlets?†   (source)
  • IN THE SUMMER of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me.†   (source)
  • The Chinese government must have stamped out an unimaginable number of these things, back in the days when they spent a lot of time thinking about the possibility of fighting a land war with the Soviets.†   (source)
  • The top shelf had a book about short-wave radio, two books on astronomy, a bird guidebook, a book called The Evil Empire on the Soviet Union, a book on the Finnish Winter War, Luther's catechism, the Book of Hymns, and the Bible.†   (source)
  • He also insisted that he would not sacrifice his proposed nuclear missiles in space—his beloved Star Wars plan—to a nuclear arms agreement with the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Baba jan had explained to him that some of the people who had fought alongside him against the Soviets in the 1980s had become both powerful and corrupt.†   (source)
  • It was the beginning of the end for the Soviets in 1989, only one range of mountains over from the spot we were going.†   (source)
  • I talk about the loss of the most substantive treaty that exists between the Soviet Union and the United States, and the canon teases me about my memory for dates!†   (source)
  • By the mid—'90s, the Taliban's prime targets in Afghanistan-before I showed up-were the feuding warlords who (a) formed the mujahideen and (b) threw the Soviets out of the country.†   (source)
  • Now Reagan has given the Soviets an open invitation to test nuclear weapons of their own; and if he proceeds with his missiles-in-space plans, he'll give the Soviets an open invitation to junk the treaty of nineteen seventy-two, as well!†   (source)
  • He pieced together different bits of information from which he could track the movements of the German army and speculate on what the Allied forces in Europe, led by Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union—no longer a partner with Germany—might be planning.†   (source)
  • I KNOW" What he meant was that he believed he "knew" what would happen to him; that it wasn't missiles that would get him—neither the Soviets' nor ours—and that, whatever "it" was, it didn't happen in October 1962.†   (source)
  • Since the summer of 1941, when Germany broke its pact with the Soviet Union, conquered Soviet-occupied territory and invaded the Soviet Union, a German victory seemed only a matter of time, but actually time was against the Germans.†   (source)
  • AND HESTER AND I SPENT AN EVENING WITH YOUR GRANDMOTHER; WE WATCHED THE IDIOT BOX, OF COURSE, AND YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD YOUR GRANDMOTHER ON THE SUBJECT OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE—SHE SAID SHE'D BELIEVE IN THE 'NEUTRALITY' OF LAOS WHEN THE SOVIETS DECIDED TO RELOCATE ...ON THE MOON!†   (source)
  • By the summer of 1944, reports were circulating that the war had swung in favor of the Allies, mainly the Americans and the British to the west and the Soviets in the east.†   (source)
  • Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where crime made people afraid to leave their homes.†   (source)
  • On the wall behind Khala Rangmaal's desk was a map of the Soviet Union, a map of Afghanistan, and a framed photo of the latest communist president, Najibullah, who, Babi said, had once been the head of the dreaded KHAD, the Afghan secret police.†   (source)
  • The Soviets are gone, but he still has the guns, and now he's turning them on innocent people like your parents.†   (source)
  • Some angry Heratis killed a few Soviet advisers, so the Soviets sent in tanks and helicopters and pounded this place.†   (source)
  • They were a guerrilla force, he said, made up of young Pashtun men whose families had fled to Pakistan during the war against the Soviets.†   (source)
  • The article went on to say that the Soviets also liked to hide explosives inside brightly colored toys.†   (source)
  • The Soviets killed a million people.†   (source)
  • And certainly no one, no one, dared repeat in her presence the rising rumors that, after eight years of fighting, the Soviets were losing this war.†   (source)
  • I want to see the day the Soviets go home disgraced, the day the Mujahideen come to Kabul in victory.†   (source)
  • Beside her, Babi was impassively listening to a man who was arguing that the Soviets might be leaving but that they would send weapons to Najibullah in Kabul.†   (source)
  • In another article in Ahmad's box, a young Mujahid was saying that the Soviets had dropped gas on his village that burned people's skin and blinded them.†   (source)
  • Dostum had fought the Soviets in the 1980s alongside the Mujahideen but had defected and joined Najibullah's communist puppet regime after the Soviets had left.†   (source)
  • He'd been a high school teacher before the communists fired him-this was shortly after the coup of 1978, about a year and a half before the Soviets had invaded.†   (source)
  • Mammy said that before he left with Noor to join the jihad against the Soviets, back in 1980, it was Ahmad who had dutifully and competently minded these things.†   (source)
  • From the excited voices around her, Laila caught snippets that she put together: The fellow at the politics table, a Pashtun, had called Ahmad Shah Massoud a traitor for "making a deal" with the Soviets in the 1980s.†   (source)
  • Still, Laila could not shake the feeling that at one time, before Ahmad and Noor had gone to war against the Soviets-before Babi had let them go to war-Mammy too had thought Babi's bookishness endearing, that, once upon a time, she too had found his forgetfulness and ineptitude charming.†   (source)
  • Now the Soviets.†   (source)
  • When Afghanistan was free from the Soviets and the boys returned home, they would need brides, and so, one by one, the women paraded the neighborhood girls who might or might not be suitable for Ahmad and Noon Laila always felt excluded when the talk turned to her brothers, as though the women were discussing a beloved film that only she hadn't seen.†   (source)
  • Padorin's navy-blue jacket was ablaze with ribbons and the gold star medal of the most coveted award in the Soviet Military, Hero of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • When it became clear that the colonel could not be extracted from the Soviet Union, he himself urged CARDINAL to betray him.†   (source)
  • America, Ryan smiled, could be pretty seductive to someone used to the gray life in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.†   (source)
  • The Soviet Union would be sending a plane for them the next day, but everyone hoped their stay might be extended a day or two so that they might experience American hospitality in full.†   (source)
  • The Konovalov had been built with the best sonar systems the Soviet Union had yet produced, copied closely from the French DUUV-23 and a bit improved, the factory technicians said.†   (source)
  • There would be nothing the Soviet Union could do to prevent the operation, a few hundred miles off the American coast, three hundred miles from the United States' largest naval base.†   (source)
  • This was enough to retire a charging tactical commander who had won the old star of the Hero of the Soviet Union no less than three times, and a dozen other decorations.†   (source)
  • The nature and tempo of Soviet operations did not indicate a backing off, as seemed to be suggested by a pair of recent articles in Red Star and some intelligence sources inside the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • He selected the Higher Naval School for Underwater Navigation, named for Lenin's Komsomol, VVMUPP, still the principal submarine school of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • This will let the imperialists know that they may not trifle with the men of the Soviet Navy, that we can approach their coast at the time of our choosing, and that they must respect the Soviet Union!†   (source)
  • I know that a weekend has just begun, and that the Soviet Union is a worker's paradise, but I expect that some of your country's managers may still be at work.†   (source)
  • He was a member of the Party elite, so when Natalie had complained of abdominal pain, going to the Fourth Department clinic which served only the privileged had been a natural mistake—there was a saying in the Soviet Union: Floors parquet, docs okay.†   (source)
  • And the government of the United States asks the government of the Soviet Union how it came to be there, in violation of our agreement, while so many other of your ships are so close to our Atlantic coast.†   (source)
  • He did his duty for all Party organizations, and was always the first to volunteer for the menial tasks allotted to children aspiring to Party membership, which he knew was the only path to success or even comfort in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • His father's prominence had made his current goal a possibility, and Marko planned to wreak his own vengeance on the Soviet Union, enough, perhaps, to satisfy the thousands of his countrymen who had died before he was even born.†   (source)
  • The Party, he heard a hundred times before he was five, was the Soul of the People; the unity of Party, People, and Nation was the holy trinity of the Soviet Union, albeit with one segment more important than the others.†   (source)
  • A rather impolitic remark, as Ustinov wore the uniform of a marshal of the Soviet Union, earned for his Party work and industrial management, it nevertheless demonstrated that Filitov was a true New Soviet Man, proud of what he was and mindful of his limitations.†   (source)
  • He'd been led down this path like a schoolboy, forgetting that the American president had been a skilled courtroom tactician—not something that life in the Soviet Union prepares a man for—and knew all about legal tricks.†   (source)
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