How to Use Soviet in a Sentence

Soviet

adjective

• The first Soviet and American soft landings on the moon happened all the way back in the 1960s, at the dawn of the Space Race.
  — Popular Science, 22 Aug. 2023
• One of Putin’s first acts in office was to change the melody of the Russian national anthem back to the Soviet one.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• Then a Soviet skater and a Norwegian skater tied Grishin for the gold with the exact same times.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• Barry points out that if the U.S. faked the moon landing, the Soviet government would have been all over that.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 12 July 2024
• In the end, no Soviet cosmonauts ever flew around the Moon.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• Russia’s view of itself as a great empire is not a Soviet thing.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
• Read more Just for subscribers: The rise and fall of a Soviet surgeon who came to America, made millions — and lost it all.
  — USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• The Ukrainians that day could use their 155mm rounds while saving their Soviet calibers.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• The book traces the evolution of his attitudes toward the Soviet past.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• Some lieutenant colonel from troop services with a mustache came by in an old Soviet car to welcome them.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• Many Afghans fled the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979, settling in Pakistan during the biggest refugee crisis in the world at the time.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• To their free-marketeer eyes, the Global Plan was too close to Soviet planning for comfort.
  — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
• As the Soviet army approaches, the prisoners are put on a forced march to the concentration camp at Mauthausen, where Stephen will spend the next year.
  — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
• First in a very practical sense, because a lot of the stuff that Soviet dissidents write about—they’re exactly the same now.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• The Soviet economy flourished, only to stagnate as the decade wore on.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• In the 1920s, the Soviet government began to drain the sea for irrigation of cotton and other cash crops.
  — Victoria Milko, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• Puyi gave the timepiece to his Russian interpreter, Georgy Permyakov, as a parting gift on his last day in a Soviet prison camp, per the auction house.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
• The synagogue was looted and burned by the Nazis, and its remains were completely destroyed by the Soviet authorities in the 1950s, who built a school on the site.
  — Jns Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024
• Constructed in 1928, the specter of the Soviet era still lingers in its lofty granite columns and Art Deco flourishes.
  — Frankie Adkins, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2023
• Rolling from concealment in a wooded area near Basra, the ex-Soviet tanks initially moved as a group.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• In 1976, Ford said [during the debate] there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, which was a huge gaffe and was treated as such at the time.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 29 June 2024
• In peacetime, the ships would have escorted convoys from the United States to Europe through a gauntlet of Soviet submarines.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• In any event, Putin has a thirst for empire, Sharansky explains, as Russian and Soviet leaders past have had.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
• During the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and Russia’s war in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, the mothers of conscripts mobilized to campaign against the abuse of conscripts.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• Unlike the former Soviet regime, Mr. Putin’s government leaves the door open for those who are dissatisfied to go.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2024
• After Nazi occupation of Hungary in the mid-1940s, Soviet forces drove out the Germans.
  — Sean Gregory, TIME, 26 July 2024
• Kasparov refused to compete under the Soviet flag — the hammer and sickle.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 June 2023
• The Russian army still broadly adheres to Soviet force-design.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• True to East German Soviet form, the buildings tend to be simple, without ornate facades.
  — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• Bout, a former soldier in the Soviet military, took advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union to become one of the most prolific arms dealers in modern history.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024