The Soviets on the other hand were too poor to fight and had too much to lose. |
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In fact, the Soviets defeated more than three times as many German divisions as their western allies. |
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The Soviets reportedly found one of two black boxes, but released no details. |
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The Germans suggested the name nielsbohrium, which the Soviets had suggested be given to element 105, to honor the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. |
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Nor can we be said to have pure capitalism anymore than the Soviets had pure communism. |
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Even the Soviets, who had sided with the Spanish government against Franco, react coolly. |
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President Eisenhower was furious and the Soviets, meanwhile, threatened to intervene on behalf of Egypt. |
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This time, because the clock had not been reset to three seconds, a horn blew from the timekeeper's table before the Soviets made the long pass. |
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The Soviets and Russians have consistently designed sniper weapons with open sights readily usable under the scope. |
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Both the Soviets and the current government have promoted his wisdom in efforts to foster nationalism over tribalism. |
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Gramsci saw them as potential Soviets, offering a new form of workers' democracy suited to a modern industrial economy. |
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The Soviets may have put the first satellite in orbit but the U.S. was the first to put a man on the moon. |
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The point of the various musical countercultures under the Soviets was not simply to hear music. |
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Like the Soviets, they achieve equality not by lifting everyone up but by keeping everyone down. |
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As the western allies quickly demobilised after the war, the opposite was the case with the Soviets. |
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Yet Grass was wrong on the big questions, especially his reluctance to face down the Soviets. |
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Much to the CIA's satisfaction, he helped to defeat the Soviets in the early Nineties. |
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The efforts of the Soviets to keep pace with American expansion brought them to the point of implosion. |
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It is very hard to argue that the Soviets were given the credit they were due for their sacrifices and sheer heroism. |
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Seemingly, the Soviets took the ball out, threw a futile long pass downcourt and the horn sounded ending the game. |
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The Soviets executed soldiers on an infinitely greater scale, either after due process or as summary military punishment. |
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So far both the Soviets and the Americans were pushing their agenda in Kashmir. |
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If the Soviets could orbit Sputnik, who was to say that they were not proceeding to develop the capability for a space-based missile attack? |
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Once run by the Soviets during the reign of the Iron Curtain, Vaziani was a strategic point in Eastern Europe. |
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After the war the Soviets moved in and signs of its Communist past still exist in its many tower blocks. |
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In the face of such toughness, the Soviets capitulated and released the five British arrested. |
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The Soviets achieve a long-desired southern strategic goal, isolating Turkey, opening a route to the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Mediterranean. |
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By early September Bolsheviks held majorities in both the Moscow and Petrograd Soviets, and Lenin urged his followers to seize power. |
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On that same day, Anna learned that, after being sent to Siberia by the Soviets, her parents had starved to death. |
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In 1948, the Soviets, in an attempt to abrogate agreements for Four-Power control of the city, blockaded Berlin. |
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In 1948, however, the Soviets refused to participate any longer in the quadripartite administration of Germany. |
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Like in earlier wargames, the rigors of wargaming changed expectations of a war with the Soviets. |
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This quixotic politician became obsessed with the plight of Afghanistan, the Afghan people, and with taking the fight to the Soviets directly. |
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Ken Alibek has alleged that the Soviets had a program to weaponize smallpox. |
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The events of Yuri's Revenge come on the heels of the Allied victory over the Soviets. |
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Forked story paths in the beginning allow you to choose between siding with the armed rebels in resistance or the Soviets in appeasement. |
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There were three narrow air corridors, airspace over Berlin was shared with the Soviets, and initially most aircraft available were Dakotas. |
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He was speaking Che's words, make no mistake, and the Soviets had turned against that, turned inward. |
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The Soviets dealt with their kulaks before establishing hegemony over Eastern Europe. |
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During the detente era, the Soviets were careful not to give the West too much propaganda ammunition. |
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Two months later, although not missile related but even more explosive, the Soviets launched the Sputnik I satellite. |
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The Soviets used his mathematical skills, for while he was there he solved computational problems concerning buildings. |
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She never disguised her contempt for the left and in particular the Soviets. |
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His father was a village school teacher but during the war he enlisted and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. |
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Ever since the Soviets launched sputnik in 1957, satellites have been part of our consciousness. |
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In the West, critics of detente and arms control argued that the Soviets were acquiring nuclear superiority. |
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In trying to subdue Afghanistan, the Soviets may well be playing a game of Russian roulette. |
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The Soviets had exploded their first atomic device in 1949, but they lacked credible delivery systems to threaten the United States directly. |
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But after the Soviets were defeated in Afghanistan, we were left in the lurch. |
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Some forty years ago, the Soviets took the bull by the horns and launched Yuri Gagarin into space. |
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The Army was in no position whatsoever to backstop a get-tough policy of containment vis-a-vis the Soviets. |
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By early 1966 the Soviets had not launched a single manned spacecraft in a year. |
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The Soviets had only just taken the city of Lublin, 140 kilometres south-east of Warsaw. |
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What the Soviets failed to understand is that homegrown insurgency and religious fervor will outlast any conquering force. |
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I know your great uncle Donald Duart Maclean was part of the Cambridge Five and was a double agent for the Soviets. |
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He had a non-aggression pact with the Soviets and he could have not fought on that front until England was taken care of either by invasion or treaty. |
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But why did the generals feel the need to rely on these groups, even after the Soviets left Afghanistan? |
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Beck was totally unaware that earlier that morning the Soviets had shot down a Korean airliner in the Sea of Japan. |
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The Soviets stopped setting off nukes at nova Zembla after that, owing to international pressure. |
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The hawks and the peaceniks, the left and the right, all believed that we would, indeed fight the Soviets over Western Europe, over missiles in Cuba, etc. |
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The Soviets put the ball in play, made a wild shot at the basket, and the buzzer went off. |
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He fought with the Soviets, then led the cavalry and B-52 bombers to rout the Taliban. |
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On October 24, the Soviets threatened to intervene in the fighting. |
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Gagarin was pushed by the Soviets as the epitome of the Communist ideal. |
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That Redstone rocket was meant to boost American morale after the Soviets launched sputnik. |
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The stolen secrets included proximity fuses used by the Soviets to shoot down the U-2 spy plane of Francis Gary Powers, one of the Cold War's most explosive events. |
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Stalingrad, of course, was the epic battle of World War II which the Soviets finally won. |
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By then it was apparent that the Soviets would lose the race to the Moon. |
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Local parishes across the country have raised funds to rebuild and restore churches destroyed by the Soviets, with some support from the Moscow patriarchate. |
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The Soviets kept this fact a secret for many years after the flight. |
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It was the former fans of the Soviets who first became Russophobes and started licking the boots of the new big brother, the United States, following the 1989 changes. |
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In the 1980s the goal was to defeat the Soviets by creating a quagmire for the Red Army like Vietnam was for America. |
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On 12 July, under a sky full of thunderclouds, the titans clashed, the Soviets under orders to close with the Tigers to negate the latter's advantage in range. |
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The Soviets who followed the czars' policies to Russify Belarus opposed the use of both the Latin alphabet and Taraskievic's linguistic system. |
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The sky now belonged to the Soviets, and the befinned automobiles that promised to take consumers there seemed silly and indulgent. |
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After the defeat of the Soviets in 1989, civil war, state collapse and Taliban victory followed. The Afghan people have seen this movie already. |
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He therefore decided to try to strengthen Germany's relations with the Soviets, or failing that, to attack and eliminate them as a factor. |
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The Soviets showed some interest, but asked for concessions from Finland, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Japan that Germany considered unacceptable. |
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The British and Soviets invaded Iran to secure the Persian Corridor and Iran's oil fields. |
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In the Soviet Union, both the Germans and the Soviets spent the spring and early summer of 1943 preparing for large offensives in central Russia. |
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In February, the Soviets entered Silesia and Pomerania, while Western Allies entered western Germany and closed to the Rhine river. |
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Churchill was still keen to pursue a meeting with the Soviets and was open to the idea of a reunified Germany. |
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In the end the Soviets proposed a five power conference, which did not meet until after Churchill had retired. |
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Instead, starting in 1928, the Soviets organised an international sports event called Spartakiads. |
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In June 1944, the Western allies landed in France and the Soviets pushed into Eastern Europe. |
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The two agreed that it would be necessary to invite the Soviets as the other major allied power. |
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Marshall's speech had explicitly included an invitation to the Soviets, feeling that excluding them would have been a sign of distrust. |
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Adenauer had been released from prison, only to discover that the Soviets had effectively divided Europe with Germany divided even further. |
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The Soviets also imposed large reparations payments on the Axis allies that were in its sphere of influence. |
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Military leaders disagreed, seeing an American partnership as the only way for Britain to resist the Soviets. |
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When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, Thatcher saw it as a typical example of relentless Communist imperialism. |
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Rumsfield and Bush feared that a conventional invasion of Afghanistan could bog down as had happened to the Soviets and the British. |
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The differences between Roosevelt and Churchill led to several separate deals with the Soviets. |
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Shortly after the attacks, Stalin protested to US officials when Truman offered the Soviets little real influence in occupied Japan. |
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Further on, the Soviets focused on a bitter rivalry with Mao's China for leadership of the global communist movement. |
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The Chinese had sought improved relations with the Americans in order to gain advantage over the Soviets as well. |
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As a result, however, the Soviets were now directly involved in what had been a domestic war in Afghanistan. |
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Meanwhile, the Soviets incurred high costs for their own foreign interventions. |
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The British and Soviets invaded neutral Iran to secure the Persian Corridor and Iran's oil fields. |
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The US was much more fortunate in its basing arrangements than the Soviets. |
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Another plane, a Catalina search and rescue plane, was sent out a few days later and shot down by the Soviets as well. |
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The Soviets would only regain their air wing later in the war with the help of the United States. |
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The timetable that Barbarossa was planned to assume that the Soviets would collapse before the onset of winter. |
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Beginning of the campaign turned into a strategic disaster for Soviets whose Southern flank was nearly destroyed. |
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After Stalingrad, the initiative had passed from Germany but had not yet been seized by the Soviets. |
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The Soviets had intelligence of what was to come and prepared massive defenses in huge depth in the Kursk salient. |
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Few of them got mistreated or killed by the Soviets or the Polish communists. |
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The Soviets sought to befriend the Chinese revolutionists by offering scathing attacks on Western imperialism. |
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Finally, at the end of 1944, the Soviets entered Romania and Bulgaria forcing the Germans out of the Balkans. |
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On August 23, 1944, Marshal Ion Antonescu was arrested by King Michael, and later handed over to the Soviets. |
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By 1947, the Soviets had imposed a communist government in Bucharest, which was friendly and obedient towards Moscow. |
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However the Soviets let down the Poles, stopping their advance at the Vistula and branding the insurgents as criminals in radio broadcasts. |
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The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, pushed for socialist revolution in the Soviets and on the streets. |
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Local authorities were organized likewise into party committees, local Soviets and executive committees. |
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When compared to countries who had a similar GDP per capita to the Soviet Union in 1928, the Soviets experienced significant growth. |
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While Germany had given the Soviets Bessarabia in the secret protocols, it had not given them North Bukovina. |
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After the Second World War, the Americans and Soviets exerted their influence whilst the volume of oil tanker traffic intensified. |
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On 10 April 1932 Mongolians revolted against the government's new policy and Soviets. |
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The Soviets also modeled economies in the rest of Eastern Bloc outside the Soviet Union along Soviet command economy lines. |
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The Soviets for their part did not seek to cut off allied access to West Berlin through East German territory. |
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After the war the POWs were handed over to the Soviets, and after the POWs were transported to the USSR for forced labour. |
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Sister Wesley said we needed the building to protect us from other wemistikoshiw men who live a long way away, who are called the Soviets. |
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On the other hand, the theory of the avoidability of war held by the Soviets manifests an important change in Leninism. |
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What the Soviets didn't know was that the CIA had planted a logic bomb inside the system, and allowed the Soviets to steal it. |
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This is a problem because in the 1950s, the Soviets built a secret bioweapons facility on Renaissance Island to weaponire things like anthrax. |
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The memorandum said the Soviets deployed the 800-km Scaleboard and 480-km Shaddock mobile missile systems with ground forces in the area. |
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Therefore, discussions were held with the Soviets and Czechoslovaks, increasing from 1951 onwards, but with little initial success. |
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On 22 June 1941, Germany, supported by Italy and Romania, invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, with Germany accusing the Soviets of plotting against them. |
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A revolutionary new aircraft was needed specifically designed for undetected overflights, as the Soviets could view such flights as potential acts of war. |
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Even the Soviets, bruised by the MacFarlands, brawled in most uncomradely fashion with the Czechs before winning 4-3 in a game dotted with 15 penalties. |
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The CIA wanted SAVAK to serve as its eyes and ears against the Soviets. |
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There were stories during the Cold War to the effect that 23,000 Americans who had been held in German POW camps were seized by the Soviets and never repatriated. |
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The Soviets mandated expropriation and etatisation of private property. |
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The Soviets promoted the reverence of Russian actions and characteristics, and the construction of Soviet structural hierarchies in the other countries of the Eastern Bloc. |
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In 1955, the Warsaw Pact was formed partly in response to NATO's inclusion of West Germany and partly because the Soviets needed an excuse to retain Red Army units in Hungary. |
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Since some of these states tied their ethnic heritage to their national churches, both the peoples and their churches were targeted by the Soviets. |
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In 1945 the Soviets again put their own flotilla on the river. |
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The remnants of the Mongolian aristocracy fought alongside the Japanese and against Chinese, Soviets and Communist Mongols during World War II, but were defeated. |
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Due to rigid state planning and bureaucracy, the Soviets remained far behind technologically in chemistry, biology, and computers when compared to the First World. |
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On 7 November 1917, the Red Guards stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd, ending the rule of the Provisional Government and leaving all political power to the Soviets. |
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The Soviets employed scorched earth tactics during their forced retreat from Bessarabia, destroying the infrastructure and transporting movable goods to Russia by railway. |
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In 1940, the Soviets annexed Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. |
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French troops entered Alsace less than two weeks later to quash the worker strikes and remove the newly established Soviets and revolutionaries from power. |
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Several of these western countries also coordinated efforts regarding the rebuilding of western Europe, including western Germany, which the Soviets opposed. |
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As part of their program of nationalisation, collectivization and general sovietization of everyday life, the Soviets deported large numbers of Lithuanians to Siberia. |
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Approximately 27 million Soviets, among them more than 20 million civilians in Soviet cities and areas, were killed throughout the duration of the war. |
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By February 1945, the Soviets brought the war to the German heartland. |
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More importantly for them, the Soviets also succeeded in a massive and unprecedented removal of their industry from the threatened war zone to protected areas in the East. |
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During their long retreat, the Soviets employed a scorched earth policy. |
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Under this rule the Soviets occupied East Prussia, creating 10,000,000 German refugees who were absorbed by West or East Germany, or the West in general. |
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This provided much needed and possibly decisive relief for the Soviets. |
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Since some of these Slavic states tied their ethnic heritage to their ethnic churches, both the peoples and their church were targeted by the Soviets. |
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The Soviets mounted a public relations campaign against the policy change. |
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Accordingly, the UN was essentially converted into an inactive forum for exchanging polemical rhetoric, and the Soviets regarded it almost exclusively as a propaganda tribune. |
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Following the Allies' May 1945 victory, the Soviets effectively occupied Central and Eastern Europe, while strong US and Western allied forces remained in Western Europe. |
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With the Soviets already occupying most of Central and Eastern Europe, Stalin was at an advantage and the two western leaders vied for his favors. |
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Meanwhile, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was stopped by the Soviets. |
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During secret talks with the Soviets in 1955, Nasser's demands for weapons were more than amply satisfied as the Soviet Union had not signed the Tripartite Declaration. |
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They argued that the plan was American economic imperialism, and that it was an attempt to gain control over Western Europe just as the Soviets controlled the Eastern Bloc. |
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Roosevelt was in favor of recognizing China as a great power because he was certain that the Chinese would side with the Americans against the Soviets. |
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In 1924 the Soviets held a Conference at Baku to consider this question, and it was decided there to adopt the Latin script for the various Tartar languages of central Asia. |
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By March, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine north and south of the Ruhr, encircling the German Army Group B, while the Soviets advanced to Vienna. |
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By late May 1944, the Soviets had liberated Crimea, largely expelled Axis forces from Ukraine, and made incursions into Romania, which were repulsed by the Axis troops. |
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The Soviets decided to make their stand at Stalingrad on the Volga. |
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Next, it is quite possible the Soviets did themselves more harm than good by their fruitless battering of German lines in hasty counteroffensives. |
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