All 30 Uses
Soviet Union
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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- 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.†
p. 109.7
- 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.†
p. 109.9
- She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan.†
p. 111.8 *Soviet Union = former Russian-led communist state that was the main rival of the United States during the Cold War
- Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where crime made people afraid to leave their homes.†
p. 111.9
- 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.†
p. 112.4
- 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.†
p. 112.9
- 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.†
p. 114.5
- 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.†
p. 121.1
- The article went on to say that the Soviets also liked to hide explosives inside brightly colored toys.†
p. 122.6
- 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.†
p. 122.8
- I want to see the day the Soviets go home disgraced, the day the Mujahideen come to Kabul in victory.†
p. 144.5
- Now the Soviets.†
p. 146.9
- Within nine months, there won't be any more Soviets in Afghanistan!†
p. 153.5
- Najibullah is the Soviets' puppet president.†
p. 153.6
- The three of them stole away while Mammy and Babi stood watching the Soviets.†
p. 155.5
- 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.†
p. 155.8
- The Soviet Union crumbled with astonishing swiftness.†
p. 159.1Soviet Union = former Russian-led communist state that was the main rival of the United States during the Cold War
- 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.†
p. 171.3
- If not for the Mujahideen, we'd still be the Soviets' servants, remember.†
p. 177.3
- All the guns the CIA handed him in the eighties to fight the Soviets.†
p. 212.1
- The Soviets are gone, but he still has the guns, and now he's turning them on innocent people like your parents.†
p. 212.2
- Now that the Soviets have collapsed, we're no use to them.†
p. 212.6
- 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.†
p. 230.5
- 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.†
p. 230.6
- 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.†
p. 273.8
- The Soviets killed a million people.†
p. 282.2
- After the war, the Soviets fell apart, and the West moved on.†
p. 334.6
- This was back in March 1979, about nine months before the Soviets invaded.†
p. 395.2
- Some angry Heratis killed a few Soviet advisers, so the Soviets sent in tanks and helicopters and pounded this place.†
p. 395.3
- The Soviets killed him in 1982, just outside of Helmand.†
p. 405.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(Soviet Union) former communist state (U.S.S.R.) led by Russia, made up of multiple republics in eastern Europe and Asia, and a main rival of the United States during the Cold War (1922–1991)The Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was created after the Russian Revolution and eventually included 15 "union republics," with Russia as the largest and most powerful.
It was a one-party state led by the Communist Party, which controlled the economy, the media, and most public life. The government claimed to be building socialism, with most property owned or directed by the state instead of by private individuals.
After helping defeat Nazi Germany in World War II, the Soviet Union became one of two superpowers, along with the United States. The two countries competed for influence around the world in the Cold War, including an arms race and a space race.
Life in the Soviet Union included periods of harsh repression and censorship, along with shortages of consumer goods. In 1991 the country broke apart, and its 15 republics became these independent countries: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Moldova, and Turkmenistan. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)