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both of China's past and present and of foreign countries, including the Soviet Union, I knew he was a man with a receptive mind.

Even so, Iran is nothing like the totalitarian, mass-murdering regimes of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, which will fundamentally change the war situation.

That this son should have been educated in the Soviet Union seems like a caricature of a poor novel.

His second regret, he said, is that he did not start to reform the Soviet Union and give more power to its 15 republics at an earlier stage.

It was a sellout that might be compared to this hypothetical situation: Suppose the United States was at war with the Soviet Union.

After living in Britain for two years, Peters returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 to be reunited with the two children she had left behind.

Unlike the Soviet Union, it appears to have found a way to lift millions out of poverty while still locking up its dissidents.

The rouble area did not long outlive the Soviet Union; the monetary union of the Czech Republic and Slovakia lasted only a matter of weeks.

He said that at the time of the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968, there was no Russian stock market.

Among former Warsaw Pact countries, the majority of Russians and Ukrainians said the break up of the Soviet Union was a bad thing.

America itself, as well as the former Soviet Union, are the only other countries to have tested anti-satellite weapons.

The post-Communist travails of the former Soviet Union have been valuable as what the party used to call "teaching by negative example" .

The point was to come up with a new figure that did not make the Soviet Union an unequal partner of the United States.

This was a standoff between the West, the US, versus the international communist world, centered around the Soviet Union.

In the Soviet Union research was as vigorous as in the United States and showed a similar mix of empirical and basic theoretical approaches.

At a stroke, a rocky transition - only the second since the collapse of the Soviet Union - seems to have been solved.

Wang Jiyu was born in the year of disintegration of the Soviet Union and grew up in an era of great changes in entertainment.

The Soviet Union needed no growth in its military capabilities to attack it even if it was not yet strong enough to take on the west.

For a while, U. S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower.

Mr Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the great geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.

S. adhere to its promises made to the Soviet Union in Yalta as a condition of the Soviet Union's entry into the war with Japan.

This was one of several models of buttonhole cameras widely used in the Soviet Union, Europe and North America.

But in Russia, where the notion of a tsar survived the Soviet Union, divided power is usually problematic.

It also led to his falling-out with Sartre, who at the time was still defending the Soviet Union and refusing to condemn the gulags.

"The system is all from the Soviet Union but the CCP has taken it to an extreme, " says Yuan Weishi, of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong.

My view is completely in accord with that of the Allies, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

If the Soviet Union did not collapse, Afghanistan would be a communist right now.

In this and other ways, the last years of the Soviet Union saw its military- industrial complex gradually pushed out into the light of day.

Upon his return to the U. S. S. R. , Abel was hailed as a hero and awarded the Order of Lenin, the Soviet Union's highest honor.

Now it is struggling to keep up in the most heated space race since the Cold War competition between the U. S. and the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

Gen MacArthur was urging Kennedy not to get bogged down in a war in a time, place and manner chosen by China or the Soviet Union.

He tried to tantalize me by revealing that the Soviet Union was prepared to discuss a package deal .

This problem seems to be an apple of discord between the Soviet union and the USA.

The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.

Indeed, not even the Soviet Union adopted Pinyin, but continued to refer to China's capital as Peking and its leader as Mao Tse-tung.

After the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union began to develop large rockets for exploring space.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it suddenly became obvious that the USSR had never been a proper country.

Carving up the Soviet Union along along the borders of its former republics made for an often unworkable allocation of physical assets.

There is an example that I got to know like this. He is a great composer of former Soviet Union Shostakovich.

Analysts say that terrorism has been a major concern in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had between them tens of thousands of nuclear warheads.

like the united states and the soviet union after the actual world war ii , the japanese and the germans are distrustful of one another.

He was convinced that the threat of general war was one of the chief fears of the Soviet Union.

Stalin feared that the multi-ethnic Soviet Union was a breeding ground for fifth-columnists, who would aid the enemy in case of war.

Pakistan is using proxies, and that's a reference to these groups that have their roots back in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union.

It involved serious issues of strategic doctrine and went to the heart of our arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union.

Throughout much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union cast an ominous shadow over the world. It was the U. S. 's dark twin.

Well, that's life. We're not the Soviet Union, where there was no sex. It is a normal phenomenon, and the need for health. . .

But the seismic shocks shattered the Soviet Union, bringing freedom, or at least the chance of it, to 15 new countries.

Mr. Rumsfeld said the Soviet Union was unprecedentedly engaged in a missile-building programme.

The Soviet Union might have gone the way of China and had an economic liberalization that ignored human rights.

The United States standing as the foremost capitalist liberal democracy whilst the Soviet Union was the foremost communist state.

The Soviet Union will be dissolved in this decade or at the latest by the beginning of the next.

Many incipient crises with Soviet Union have been contained or settled without ever reaching the point of public disagreement.

China then, like the Soviet Union, was a bleak place with little other intellectual stimulation. People yearned for provocative ideas.

The Soviet Union and the United States had been ideological opposites since the October Revolution.

We have no wish to war with the Soviet Union -- for we are a peaceful people who desire to live in peace with all other peoples.

And today we are going back almost 80 years to the former Soviet Union and a time of immense suffering, the Ukrainian famine.

To contain the fallout, the Soviet Union constructed a metal and concrete structure commonly known as the sarcophagus over the wreckage.

The aluminum industry was one of the most lucrative in the chaos following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

But contrary to what you might gather from the western press, Russia is not the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union's space-faring triumph did not betoken much of an economic threat.

It was even more against our interest to permit the Soviet Union to overwhelm or to humiliate Cuba.

Instead, he tried to hold on to power until the very last moment -- to preserve the Soviet Union until it was too late.

On the basis of my own observations, I should like to elucidate a few problems concerning the Soviet Union and China.

Born Jewish in Poland in 1937, he spent long days of his childhood hiding from the Nazis in an attic near the border of the Soviet Union.

Before the U. S. reactionaries have subjugated these countries, an attack on the Soviet Union is out of the question .

The project was commissioned as part of a broad modernization program that extended a network of electrical towers across the Soviet Union.

In November 1974, Mr. Yakovlev said he was headed back to the Soviet Union for a vacation.

Far from rebuilding the Soviet Union, the Kremlin seems determined to follow the path which led to its collapse 20 years ago.

After World War Two, Hu Shi (Hu Shih) believed, the Soviet Union had turned out to be a "horrible, invasive force. "

They needed a plane that could carry nuclear bombs across the globe, to the Soviet Union, in only a few hours.

These successive eruptions posed problems for the U. S. world order, and indeed for the Soviet Union as well.

The Soviet Union was undermined by stagnation and a sense of hopelessness. Is the same thing happening again?

As a result of the language policy of the Soviet Union, Russian is also commonly spoken as a second language among the urbane.

Everyday psychiatric practice in many parts of the Soviet Union during this period was embedded in a repressive and authoritarian culture.

Beijing's "underground city" dates back to China's 1969 border war with the Soviet Union and it more than lives up to its name.

And by the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and will be carried all over the Soviet Union.

The former Soviet Union occupied Heixiazi and Yinlong Islands in 1929, and this had not been accepted by China.

During the double-polarized powers of its former form "Soviet Union" , Russia used to stride shoulder to shoulder with the US.

It called for smaller government, lower taxes, a moral dimension to social policy and a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union.

North Korea's economy was never advanced; it was an industrial economy with similarities to the Soviet Union.

Fortunately for Georgi, America was fertile ground for the kind of criminal enterprises he'd practiced in the old Soviet Union.

The second way in which Chinese Communism might be halted would be by interference from the Soviet Union.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union Russian people began to explore all the loveliness of the bourgeois world.

The hot line was a direct communications link between the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States.

Denying that he wanted to rebuild the Soviet Union, he said that the move would have "an undoubtedly positive global effect" .

It was not the American trade embargo that pushed him into the arms of the Soviet Union; he went willingly.

Denying that he wanted to rebuild the Soviet Union, he said that the move would have "an undoubtedly positive global effect" .

It was not the American trade embargo that pushed him into the arms of the Soviet Union; he went willingly.

suzhou, China's cities are now referred to as the Soviet Union, with Gusu, Miss all, Wu, Wu, Wu Jiang, and many other ancient city of peace.

"When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him, " says Prof. Panarin.

Germany might have stood a chance of defeating the Soviet Union.

Europe is the only region in which TB has risen continuously, particularly in the poorer countries of the former Soviet Union.

Once the Soviet Union acquired the bomb in 1949 and others prepared to follow, nonproliferation became feasible only through cooperation.

I believed it in the dialogue with the Soviet Union over 30 years, [and] I believe it's important with China as well.

China looks down its nose at Russia, which has been unable to organise itself since the fall of the Soviet Union.

On the surface, the collapse of the Soviet Union reduced China's strategic value to the west.

North Korea's economy, meanwhile, turned into a basket case following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main benefactor.

Belarus has survived as an independent entity since the break-up of the Soviet Union thanks to cheap Russian natural gas.

The carrier was originally built by the former Soviet Union, which failed to complete the ship's construction before collapsing in 1991.

Mainly Mr Putin's belief that energy is a weapon with which to restore the lost greatness of the Soviet Union.

China then, like the Soviet Union, was a bleak place with little other intellectual stimulation.

(Mr Lugar was an early sponsor of American efforts to secure weapons material inside the former Soviet Union).

For months, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union had been growing worse and worse.

Indeed, the Soviet Union in 1985 possessed much of the same natural and human resources that it had 10 years before.

He did not return to the Soviet Union until after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

He wrote that America, like the Soviet Union before it, was securing and bolstering a "failing state" in Afghanistan.

It was more considered South Siberia during the Soviet Union.

So, too, in the early 1950s, Soviet leaders thought they were recreating a communist China that would be similar to the Soviet Union.

It is capable of doing things only the U. S. and Soviet Union have done.

That's because future Chinese-American competition will differ from that between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war.

They take immediate action, by the Soviet Union to put pressure on China, and China exchange maps, demarcation of the border.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of Cold War situation competing for hegemony between the U.

The East Germans, whose government had lobbied the Soviet Union to punish the restive Poles, did not.

Your commissars don't tell you of these things. Commissars tell you that Finland attacked the Soviet Union.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has worked to develop relations with Israel and ties have been relatively warm.

The Soviet Union's economy was just a quarter of United States' economy when we had that arms race.

Nixon (shaking hands on it): "By the same token, everything I say will be translated and heard all over the Soviet Union? "

Nikolai Bukharin of former Soviet Union put forward the concept of "balance of movement" about economic balance and social balance.

and with it, Stalin accelerated the socialist construction in Soviet Union.

Vasily Reshetnikov piloted 307 missions in his Antonov during the war and was later declared a Hero of the Soviet Union.

The implosion of the Soviet Union could not stir anything but a sense of shame among Russians.

America's rivalry with China (and to a lesser extent India) is nothing like the life-and-death struggle against the Soviet Union.

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After all, it was the collapse of global oil prices in the early 1990s that brought down the Soviet Union.

If the Soviet Union had carried out the same attacks, no one would have doubted that the United States was at war.

The "hot line" was a direct communications link between the leaders of Soviet Union and the United States.

The former Soviet Union was a super power but only with an economy of a third world nation.

Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, once said that "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them" .

After the defeat of Germany signed the surrender, did not sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union.

Although born in a country occupied by the Soviet Union, he barely remembers communism; it was already collapsing when he was 10.

In the past two decades, the relationship between Russia (and the former Soviet Union) and the NATO alliance has changed radically, he said.

He says the American president also had a strategic goal, hoping to counteract the influence of the Soviet Union with closer ties to China.

In permafrost areas in the Soviet Union or Canada or Alaska, ice has been used effectively for walling and roofing.

It was the large size of the defense industry that played a major role in bankrupting the Soviet Union.

They argue that if the current Russia is kept under pressure, it will eventually implode just as the Soviet Union did.

During this period the Soviet Union has exploded a series of atomic devices, including at least one involving thermo-nuclear reactions.

A version of this developed and tested by the Soviet Union fired a cloud of small pellets at its target like a shotgun blast.

By the time the rocket was ready for launch, Yuri Gagarin had already gone into space for the Soviet Union.

Geopolitical rivalry long predates the United States and the Soviet Union, of course; it dates back to the days of the Roman Empire.

Wuxi diet is "to help the four major branches of Eight" of the Soviet Union to help SU Xi cuisine, tastes sweet side.

A week before her 21st birthday, AlissaZinovievna Rosenbaum left the Soviet Union, never to return.

At the end of the war, and shortly thereafter, Zionists received enormous loads of weapons from the Soviet Union.

Negotiations between the U. S. and the Soviet Union aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic nuclear missiles.

The full effects of the Soviet Union's collapse a few years earlier had yet to be felt in North Korea.

Since the demise of the Soviet Union, nomadic lifestyles have returned and Shamanism and Buddhism are once again flourishing.

The few remaining nationalists are still hoping for a shock; after all, argues one, nobody predicted the end of the Soviet Union.

After the crash of Soviet Union, great changes have taken place in the geo-politics of Central Asia.

After the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, there was an upsurge in the ratio of boys to girls in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

But as the Soviet Union began to crumble, greater opportunities loomed.

Most of Xinji's fur and leather exports ended up in the former Soviet Union, Russia in particular.

The United States is in much the same situation today as the Soviet Union was in 1989, as a series of socialist dominoes toppled.

During the Cold War, Germany was forced to sign and comply with the NPT by the Soviet Union, Britain, France and the U.

It took less than a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union for Odessa to become a hub for the international sex trade.

In 1968 Soviet tanks rolled into Prague to crush the uprising, and a new wave of repression started in the Soviet Union as well.

The plume drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America.

The Soviet Union began to invest heavily in the new regime and backed Najibullah's reconciliation strategy.

The crucial sentence was the mutual opposition to "hegemony" , the code word for the threat of the Soviet Union.

Without the existential threat of the Soviet Union, the new alliance is much more one of choice rather than necessity.

When the Soviet Union existed, it was thought to be the place where the imaginary world of George Orwell's 1984 had come to life.

Thinking of the bread lines in the former Soviet Union, I ask Li if he thinks authoritarian governments like to make their subjects line up.

"Northward advance" would mean war with the Soviet Union , to be fought mainly in the land battles.

With the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet Union revived the line, claiming all the territory east of it.

The Soviet Union lasted many decades. Did Stalinism "work" until it did not?

There was a fleeting opportunity for liberal democracy and genuine free markets to emerge in Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.

"Any form of entrepreneurship was frowned on, yet there was less monolithic industry than in the Soviet Union, " he says.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, new facts have surfaced about the secret weapons developed by the Red Army during WWII.

We have always opposed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union acting like a patriarchal party and displaying great-power chauvinism.

Kosovo looks and feels like a poor part of Europe, not a part of the Third World or parts of the former Soviet Union.

A carefully crafted duality is a hallmark of a training program that somehow survived the fall of the Soviet Union, experts said.

During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt had asked the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, to enter the war against Japan.

China is nothing like the Soviet Union, and hasn't been for decades.

And there is an excellent final section on the summit diplomacy that did so much to change Western perceptions of the Soviet Union.

They also thought that only the Soviet Union would be powerful enough to defeat Fascism.

Of course, if it weren't for the fall of the Soviet union , the AP will still be talking about the Cold War.

Compared with the elaborate cold-war communication between America and the Soviet Union, China and America do not talk.

Also, the number of spy satellites launched has fallen since the demise of the Soviet Union.

Mr Spufford's "pre-history of perestroika" , as he calls it, is clear in its judgment that the Soviet Union was in most ways an awful place.

Seventy years of living in the Soviet Union have made them inventive and adaptable.

Collective defense always assumed that America would come to Europe's aid against a superpower like the Soviet Union.

But since the mid-1970s, when it was financed by Iran and built by the Soviet Union, it has operated for fewer than 60 days.

Rabbi Kogan says that the men's sacrifice spared the Soviet Union from a blood civil war that could have cost millions of lives.

He also gained support when he defended the United States to Khrushchev during a trip to the Soviet Union.

The other countries, which have sent spacecraft to Moon, are the United States, former Soviet Union, Japan and China.

The system was vile and corrupt, and it was only a small consolation when the Soviet Union boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics.

With the Soviet Union everything was more or less clear and predictable.

The titanic battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union's Red Army for the city at the end of World War II left the city in ruins.

And Lenin's important thought of peaceful co-existence had become a leading theory in Soviet Union's foreign policy.

When the Soviet Union crumbled two years later, America was caught unprepared and scrambling for a policy.

The Nixon Administration was greeted with a barrage of advice to move forward rapidly to improve relations with the Soviet Union.

One night I thought of the movie Miracle, which tells the story of the famous victory of the USA Hockey Team against the Soviet Union.

During the Cold War, we feared an all-out nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.

IN COLD-WAR days America and the Soviet Union vied for influence among the poor world's minnows.

Using visa 0002 had to wait for more than a year, until the Soviet Union collapsed in August 1991.

Yet today, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more, and the NATO alliance is meeting in the capital of a free Latvia.

SALT I began a process of serious and sustained arms control discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In Romania and Moldova is a landlocked country between the Ukraine, former Soviet Union as one of the 15 republics.

The United States and the Soviet Union were in a tense competition for world influence.

Since the end of the Cold War and the independence of Lithuania from the Soviet Union, Kaliningrad has been an exclave of Russia.

Since the end of the Soviet Union, China has been buying many more Russian combat aircraft than Russia's own air force.

By the time Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and glasnost in the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was all but bust.

America, he predicts, will fail in Iraq just as the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan.

The Soviet Union, of course, utterly failed to take the next steps.

For most of his adult life in the Soviet Union, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was persecuted.

Shortly afterwards, the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived the relationship of its "defining shared purpose" .

America faced some straightforward, if terrifying, calculations in its monochromatic relationship with the Soviet Union.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asia region has become a focus of the international community.

A war against the Soviet Union would have to be carried on with quite other methods.

In the Soviet Union, where the aged leadership was dying off and the economy was moribund, people were starting to question the system.

The treaty coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union and with German reunification.

There were powerful countries to the east and west of the Soviet Union, and in the south was the vast and populated Islamic world.

Just look at how US aid the Taliban in the fight against the Soviet union and fast forward to how thing have turned out in Afghan now.

Without the Soviet Union's occupying armies, Germany is once again the power that leads Europe but is unable to dominate it.

For a little over 70 years the leadership of the Soviet Union attempted to control individual thought and productivity.

Was the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev really just an authoritarian regime, rather than a totalitarian one?

It is worth noting that Gorbachev, as the last leader of the Soviet Union, has never renounced his Marxist ideology.

In 1938 Bentley began spying on fascists in New York City for the Communist Party of the United States, and by proxy the Soviet Union.

But after the former Soviet Union's disintegrating, this principle has been affirmed. It has returned to the "Russian federal civil code" .

The essential weakness of the Soviet Union was exposed: to survive, the regime had to imprison its own population.

Russian foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union has been hard to read.

Medvedev recognised that there could be "different attitudes" toward the Soviet Union.

He affirmed American's determination, after proper preparations, to enter into negotiation with the Soviet Union on a wide range of issues.

In other parts of the Soviet Union they constructed buildings, including Moscow state university.

These weeks' events in the Soviet Union captured head lines all across the United States.

So, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, have former communist countries in the Caucasus and the western Balkans.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its generous subsidies to Cuba, Fidel allowed limited foreign investment and self-employment.

including clothing and scholars around the former Soviet Union where even recommend this method of taking royal jelly.

The former general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union is now advertising suitcases.

He brought Big Government to its knees and stared down the Soviet Union . And the audience loved it .

Apparently, there was Stalin's order to recommend one or two men for a Hero of the Soviet Union from each type of artillery units.

But his main expertise, acquired over decades of scholarly study, is in the Soviet Union and its east European empire.

Some experts claim that it was Reagan's extreme military expenditures that bankrupted the Soviet Union and put an end to the Cold War.

The bulk of that production decline, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture data, reflects a sharp plunge in the former Soviet Union.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians ate most of their beef cows as the system of reproduction broke down.

Osama bin Laden says George Bush, by prolonging the war in Iraq, is repeating the errors of Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

Belligerent speeches by leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States throughout the Cold war kept the world on edge for years.

Yet as a policy and as a concept, it has brought profound changes to the Soviet Union's view of the world and of itself.

The 1996 Summer Olympics was the nation's first participation of the Olympic games independently, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Sitting at the crossroads of the energy-rich Middle East and the former Soviet Union, Turkey has unique leverage as a transit hub for gas.

Welcome to Sword and Shield - a communist-style Moscow restaurant, which faithfully recreates the atmosphere of the Soviet Union.

After the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union's nuclear fission research have no news.

During the 1961 Berlin crisis, the Pentagon drew up highly specific plans for a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union.

Others search in vain in China's environmental movement for a democratic vanguard, in evidence during the last days of the Soviet Union.

In Russia, as in much of the former Soviet Union, he was intensely engaged with the country's political and economic transformation.

Malaria eradication was supported by the United States of America, and the Soviet Union took on smallpox eradication.

The problematic conflicts that are left all involve bits of the former Soviet Union, for which the lure of EU membership does not work.

His distrust of Poland's western neighbour was matched by a visceral hostility towards the Soviet Union and its defenders.