I'm born in the U.S.S.R.

How many republics were there in the Soviet Union?

There was no sex in the Soviet Union.

The two broke up in 1935.

This book is about life in the Soviet Union.

It was more considered South Siberia during the Soviet Union.

But, within the Soviet leadership, the incident was a tipping point.

Pictures remind us one more time of Soviet industrial style and aesthetics.

KVN originated in Soviet Russia during the 1960s.

Nor does it have Soviet style ideological appeal.

Forced secularization from above relatively successful in the Soviet Union failed abjectly.

It is clear that modern Russia lacks global status in the Soviet sense.

A third of humanity saw the Soviet Union as leading the world toward global socialism.

Today s despots view near unanimous Soviet style electoral victories as vulgar and old fashioned.

This cleared a path to the peaceful dismantling of communist dictatorship throughout the entire Soviet bloc.

Import substitution fostered competitive industries in Brazil, but not in Argentina.

Two track reform worked well in Deng's China but not in Gorbachev's Soviet Union.

Intravenous drug use is spreading HIV AIDS in Iran, Central Asia, and the former Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union, Russia's political predecessor, was the first country in the world to develop a nuclear power reactor in 1954.

This would be in the spirit of the Glasnost policy that was by then already established in the Soviet Union.

Los Angeles gets the Oscar, with Soviet style queues through security.

The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on April 9, 1962.

As someone born in the old Soviet Union, I know firsthand the despair and brutality of such attempts.

In September 1989, Poland had the first government ever led by democratic parties in the Soviet bloc.

Efforts to do so usually ended disastrously. As someone born in the old Soviet Union, I know firsthand the despair and brutality of such attempts.

Today s Russian propaganda combines quintessentially Soviet style heavy handedness and state of the art technique.

Mass cotton cultivation in Central Asia began under the Russian Empire and accelerated under the Soviet Union.

A high ranking Moldova military official in an old Soviet Volga car, during the military parade in Chisinau, Moldova.

... we took it for granted that it would become a nuclear war anyway, and that we were going to disappear.

When we arrived in Cairo, it seemed that everywhere one looked there was evidence of the Soviet presence Soviet tanks, missiles, and troops.

Whereas ethnic Russians comprised only 50 of the Soviet Union s population, they now make up 81 of the Russian Federation.

In the former Soviet Union and its satellite states, environmental activism contributed dramatically to regime change.

For many of us who grew up in the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe, Margaret Thatcher will always be a heroine.

Whereas ethnic Russians comprised only 50 of the Soviet Union s population, they now make up 81 of the Russian Federation.

Al lived in the Soviet Union, huge and multinational one, at the large Tver Region equal to several English counties in size.

Russia s message to other West leaning countries in the former Soviet world was clear America cannot protect you.

Moreover, neither oil and gas deposits nor imperialist policies will stop Russia s decline. Without functioning democratic institutions, Russia s second attempt at selective modernization will fail just as certainly as its previous, Soviet incarnation did.

The model of socialism that existed in the Soviet Union is dead even the Communist Party does not seriously question the need for market economic relations.

Indeed, throughout the former Soviet bloc, there is a disturbing trend in using outdated, conservative, and heavy handed policies to address drug abuse.

Of course, political protests have been global for decades, as past marches against the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, and globalization itself demonstrated.

I feel like some communist true believer who, in the 1930s, suddenly realized that terror existed in the Soviet Union.

Without functioning democratic institutions, Russia s second attempt at selective modernization will fail just as certainly as its previous, Soviet incarnation did.

The revolutions of 1989 and 1991 in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union blanketed a huge region within months.

Maksim Kononenko I hope you understand one important, fundamental thing about Russia twenty years ago, we all lived in the Soviet Union.

For the liberal clan, the worst thing in the post Soviet space is Russia's reintegration with this post Soviet space.