Soviet in a sentence

As it turned out, the Afghan military was entirely dependent on Soviet aid to function. citation When the Soviet Union was dissolved on 26 December 1991, Najibullah turned to former Soviet Central Asia for aid.

Libya's use—and heavy loss—of Soviet-supplied weaponry in its war with Chad was a notable breach of an apparent Soviet-Libyan understanding not to use the weapons for activities inconsistent with Soviet objectives.

Please, note that all republics in the Soviet Union were soviet (as soviet national), yet 15 were of union level, while the other, autonomous republics, were subordinated to the union republics.

Prior to 1991, the Soviet Union held Russia's UN seat, but, after the breakup of the Soviet Union the Russian government informed the United Nations that Russia will continue the Soviet Union's membership at the United Nations and all other UN organs.

Soviet advance to the Mannerheim Line Soviet military plan Major Soviet offensives from 30 November – 22 December 1939 At the beginning of the war, total victory over Finland was expected within a few weeks.

Soviet puppet regimes were installed; and within two months Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were incorporated as Soviet republics within the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union countered this threat by issuing a statement that any use of nuclear weapons (tactical or otherwise) against Soviet forces would be grounds for a full-scale Soviet retaliatory strike ( massive retaliation ).

Through declassified documents from Soviet archives and Venona project decryptions of coded Soviet messages, it has become known that the Soviet Union engaged in substantial espionage activities in the United States during the 1940s.

Throughout Amānullāh's reign, Soviet-Afghan relations fluctuated according to Afghanistan's value to the Soviet leadership at a given time; Afghanistan was either viewed as a tool for dealing with Soviet Muslim minorities or for threatening the British.

Before Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union two years later, he and Stalin agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact of 1939 to divide central and eastern Europe into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence.

Comrat, Gagauzia’s capital, kept Soviet statues and street names honoring Soviet-era politicians and soldiers.

During the Soviet days, Nigeria benefitted tremendously from Soviet assistance.

However, following the Soviet invasion of Hungary in November 1956, the US government suspended the “Food for Peace” program to the Soviet Union.

It has elements of the Soviet era, at the same time, it witnessed the historic moment of when Estonia regained its independence on August 20, 1991 when the new Estonian government read out its declaration of Independence from the Soviet Union.

Key questions about Soviet nuclear weapons went unanswered when Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and their Belarusian counterpart gathered a week after the Ukrainian referendum to declare the end of the Soviet Union.

Short version: A lot of Western analysts overestimated Soviet military power at the end of WW2, and those estimates were then used as a baseline for Soviet- and later, russian- military power ever since.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union we have dumped 1.2 trillion dollars worth of weapons into former soviet countries on the Russian border.

The outpost was conceived in part as a venture to improve relations between Washington and Moscow following the Soviet Union’s collapse and the end of Cold War rivalries that gave rise to the original U.S.-Soviet space race in the 1950s and 1960s.

The shock produced by that disaster, and the Soviet leadership’s ham-fisted attempts to cover it up, galvanized Ukraine’s pro-independence forces at a time when Mikhail Gorbachev’s were beginning to open up the politics and economy of the Soviet Union.

The ultimate tribute to the impact of Tottle’s research comes from the arch anti-Soviet pundit, Anne Applebaum, who proclaimed that Tottle — a mere Canadian leftist with no elite credentials — could not have written his book without Soviet help.