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  • They reasoned that eastern Poland, closer to the Soviets, would be safer than the west, with its proximity to Germany.†   (source)
  • "The Soviets said they wouldn't test any weapons until the U.S. tested first," I told the canon.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I can see the headline from here: "Germans and Soviets Parade in Poland."†   (source)
  • Though the research done on HeLa cells in space was legitimate and useful, we now know that it was part of a cover-up for a reconnaissance project that involved photographing the Soviet Union from space.†   (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)
  • The Pashtuns were the tribe who refused to buckle under to the army of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Then, in May, the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik III, weighing in at a whopping 2,925 pounds.†   (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)
  • One of the Refus who came over the Dateline from the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • He had never sought the dissolution of the Soviet Union and never renounced his fundamental commitment to Marxism-Leninism.†   (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)
  • But our comrades in the Soviet Union won't let him go.†   (source)
  • Goldfarb was a rumpled-looking microbiologist, a former refusenik in the latter days of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Germany had invaded the Soviet Union on Midsummer Eve.†   (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)
  • Marxists gave serious attention to national liberation movements and the Soviet Union in particular supported the national struggles of many colonial peoples.†   (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)
  • Of all the Communist leaders deposed in the years bracketing the collapse of the Soviet Union, only Nicolae Ceausescu met a violent death.†   (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)
  • Even in the finest clinic in the Soviet Union nothing could be done.†   (source)
  • It seems the Soviet Union has conducted an atomic test at a secret location somewhere inside its own borders.†   (source)
  • Our goal, I suppose, was to obliterate the Soviet Union before they obliterated us.†   (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)
  • Lin Biao had been trying to flee to the Soviet Union when his evil motives were discovered.†   (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)
  • Japan's military leaders calculated that Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 would be successful.†   (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)
  • Its contracts with the former Soviet Union were at one time quite controversial.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Of these forty-seven possibles, including two of the eleven couples, an even dozen had made recent trips to the Soviet Union-scratch all of them.†   (source)
  • Because he was a Muslim, it was his duty to fight the invading Soviets, he claimed.†   (source)
  • Oswald is fond of being on the move, but the Soviets have severely restricted his travel.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Old Soviets know.†   (source)
  • "Sputnik," their father said, "was the Russians—the Soviet Union, back then.†   (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)
  • The line that continued upward after the intersection belonged to the Soviet Union, and the time of the intersection was right then.†   (source)
  • The Soviets may have had other plans.†   (source)
  • My mother's letter on August 9, three days after Hiroshima, one day after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, still ignored the atomic age.†   (source)
  • Iron Curtain countries excluding the Soviet Union and China.†   (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)
  • We waited in limbo after Schindler's departure for the arrival of the Soviets.†   (source)
  • The three of them stole away while Mammy and Babi stood watching the Soviets.†   (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)
  • This was back in March 1979, about nine months before the Soviets invaded.†   (source)
  • Had the Soviets captured him, they would have seen him only as a Nazi and would have killed him.†   (source)
  • The Soviets killed him in 1982, just outside of Helmand.†   (source)
  • Now that the Soviets have collapsed, we're no use to them.†   (source)
  • Najibullah is the Soviets' puppet president.†   (source)
  • If not for the Mujahideen, we'd still be the Soviets' servants, remember.†   (source)
  • All the guns the CIA handed him in the eighties to fight the Soviets.†   (source)
  • Within nine months, there won't be any more Soviets in Afghanistan!†   (source)
  • We can't control these changes any more than the Soviets or the Chinese can.'†   (source)
  • The Soviets do it all the time; they don't even bother to hide it.†   (source)
  • By the end of the war, the Americans and the Soviets have developed significant bioweapons programs.†   (source)
  • The Soviets dropped an H-bomb in the Antarctic called the Tsar.†   (source)
  • I'm an upstanding citizen of the Soviet Union, please remember that.†   (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 so thinks Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union.†   (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)
  • Was it possible that the United States and the Soviet Union were both victims of a third party?†   (source)
  • … I want every station and listening post on the borders of the Soviet Union on full alert.†   (source)
  • Anything that distracted or in any way diminished the United States was good for the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • All too frequently to the Soviets, if only to prove to them how rash they were to expel him.†   (source)
  • There's a new realpolitik in Europe since the Soviet Union collapsed.†   (source)
  • The moment the Soviet Union collapsed he became uninteresting.†   (source)
  • "In the Soviet Union," Borodin pointed out, "doctors are paid about the same as factory workers."†   (source)
  • By announcing first, we prevent the Soviets from putting their own sweet spin on the event.†   (source)
  • Americans are terrified of the Soviet Union and its arsenal of nuclear weapons.†   (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)
  • It was odd that such men should come from the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • "Or by Cain with far less risk to the Soviets," argued the CIA man.†   (source)
  • The Soviets always wanted bigger yield, bigger stockpiles.†   (source)
  • "The presence of the Soviets was both alarming and enigmatic," continued the count.†   (source)
  • I simply consider his years, his struggles, his hatred of the Soviets, and avoid the subject.†   (source)
  • It was not something you would have studied in Novgorod; the Soviets had no such accommodations.†   (source)
  • There were rumors about that, but in the Soviet Union there are always rumors.†   (source)
  • He told reporters that the police were after him only because he had lived in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • They will be returned to the Soviet Union as quickly as we can arrange it.†   (source)
  • The Soviet Union in 1961 is hardly the place for a man in search of independence and power.†   (source)
  • Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan by birth, rejected terrorist, whom even the Soviets could not handle.†   (source)
  • It is below my rank, but all Americans think all Soviets in Komitet are 'colonel,' da?†   (source)
  • You know that, the Soviet Union buys our grain.†   (source)
  • Marina Oswald never returned to the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Four separate times he had been offered extraction from the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • He also neglected to tell his employer about his time in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Oswald has temporarily abandoned plans to return to the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Crippled arm or not, it was said that Filitov was among the best gunners in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • Failure to do so would make Khrushchev and the Soviet Union an international laughingstock.†   (source)
  • Only a few years before, the forty-hour week had been started in the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • "That is the property of the Soviet Union," Kaganovich pointed out.†   (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)
  • "Then why don't the Soviets copy our screw designs?"†   (source)
  • If anything, I'd say the Soviets have the advantage.†   (source)
  • The Soviets, however, were unsure of the intelligence and didn't pass along the news to Castro.†   (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)
  • What were the Soviets up to? he wondered.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • The perennial crop failures in the Soviet Union were attributed to a highly centralized system run by distant bureaucrats.†   (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)
  • With the Soviet Union having reunified Slovakia with the Czech Republic and creating Czechoslovakia under their influence, Lale's business was, according to him, the only one not immediately nationalized by the communist rulers.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I can't stand the orthodoxy, and I'll bet that's one reason that science did not flourish in the former Soviet Union."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But the collapse of the Soviet Union had created ideal ingredients both for a very large epidemic and for rampant drug resistance within it: a failing tb control system had led to many uncompleted therapies; rising crime had led to overcrowded prisons.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • FOR MOST OF THE twentieth century, the Soviet Union stood as the greatest obstacle to the worldwide spread of American values and the American way of life.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was a poor country, and made that way at least in part by the United States' long embargo, yet when the Soviet Union had dissolved and Cuba had lost both its patron and most of its foreign trade, the regime had listened to the warnings of its epidemiologists and had actually increased expenditures on public health.†   (source)
  • No society in human history worshipped science more devoutly or more blindly than the Soviet Union, where "scientific socialism" was considered the highest truth.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 ….†   (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)
  • Alan told Yousef the best part, that his father had been captured by the Nazis, imprisoned at Muhlberg, and when the Soviets overran the region, they expected to be freed, but were not.†   (source)
  • The Soviet Union had ceased to exist, and Zalachenko's usefulness was definitively a thing of the past.†   (source)
  • There was a story about an American arms shipment to Greece and the subsequent debate in the United Nations; the Soviets protested.†   (source)
  • He didn't like America and he knew that England was one of those countries where the Soviets had agents at the highest levels within military intelligence.†   (source)
  • On the international front, Oliver held talks with the governments of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and in January 1987 met with the U.S. secretary of state, George Shultz, in Washington.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Several of the squad leaders who were on their way to the P.P.D. had gathered near the pole with the thermometer, and one of the younger ones, a former Hero of the Soviet Union, shinnied up it and wiped off the instrument.†   (source)
  • When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Bin Laden relocated to Peshawar, Pakistan, and later Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The United States had three and a half times as many scientists as the Soviet Union and spent three and a half times as much money on research; the U.S. had four times as many scientists as the European Economic Community and spent seven times as much on research.†   (source)
  • In late July, the Big Three leaders of the Allied nations—Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Harry Truman of the United States, and Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in Potsdam to map out the closure of the Pacific War.†   (source)
  • The Cold War was on and today's edition of TASS, the Soviet Union's sanctioned newspaper, announced, "Successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic rocket and explosions of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons have been carried out in conformity with the plan of scientific research work in the USSR."†   (source)
  • The Minister of Culture, from whom the poet did everything possible to hide, did not catch up with Hrubin until his funeral, when he made a speech over the grave about the poet's love for the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • The big, bad Soviets.†   (source)
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