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US
/ˈsoʊviˌɛt, ˈsoʊviət/
]
[ UK /sˈəʊviət/ ]
[ UK /sˈəʊviət/ ]
NOUN
- an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
How To Use soviet In A Sentence
- In recent months, the president explained, we had been hearing a great deal from the Soviet Union about a new policy of glasnost or openness.
- Soviet women carry the main burden of shopping, homemaking and child rearing.
- This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
- The formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 did not automatically change any of that for the better.
- With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith.
- The Socialist Republic of Vietnam came into existence in July 1976 as a communist country modelling its political system after those of the Soviet Union and China.
- Spectacular Soviet successes in rocketry, beginning with Sputnik, sent the United States into a deep emotional depression.
- Only in 1920 after Moscow cleared Russian chauvinists out of leadership of the Ukrainian Communist Party did the new Soviet administration seriously address aspirations for self-determination.
- The decision was uncontroversial, as the Soviet's non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany had precipitated the war.
- In recent decades, though, especially sine the end of Soviet tyranny, the safe-haven idea has lost cogency like an unwound watch running down.