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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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army
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Her parents had been killed by the advancing Soviet army .
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After the Soviet army seized the castle, they vanished.
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Her other grandfather fought as a soldier of the Soviet army .
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Service, for 18 months, was compulsory for men over 19 who had not served in the Soviet army .
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Moscow politicians also are reassured by his past as a colonel in the Soviet army .
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Other young men followed, some after national service in the Soviet army , or university training.
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The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act.
authority
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By then he was unofficially resident and working abroad, and in uneasy relations with the Soviet authorities .
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The Soviet authorities judged them not dangerous enough to deport with the rest.
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For days after the explosion the Soviet authorities withheld news of the accident.
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The Soviet authorities strictly controlled all telecommunications.
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Furthermore, the way the Soviet authorities went about indoctrinating the people in atheist dogma was counterproductive.
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But many had not been settled, and Britain had a list of 50 names it had presented to the Soviet authorities .
bloc
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Status: Soviet bloc economic co-operation pact.
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The Soviet bloc collapses; same story.
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In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states.
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The demise of the Soviet bloc deprived revolutionaries of powerful sponsors.
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Or perhaps she is a kind of Soviet bloc Norma Desmond.
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Nearly all of it was imported, at preferential prices, from Soviet bloc countries.
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The president himself ordered studies of the feasibility of tougher policies than had been been pursued under Truman against the Soviet bloc .
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Philby was discounted and everything pointed to Mills - a senior man in the Soviet bloc department.
citizen
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In the early years few groups of Soviet citizens visited Britain.
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For many pro-reform Soviet citizens , Nevzorov personified the hardline editorial shift in television broadcasting.
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New customs rates On July 1 new customs duties for Soviet citizens bringing goods into the country came into force.
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This latter has the inestimable advantage for Soviet citizens of accepting roubles.
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Given a real cause to fight for, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens would volunteer to help overthrow Stalin.
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To us he will always be a Soviet citizen .
economy
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Preobrazhensky was in fact trying to analyse Soviet economy without reference to the specific historical features of that formation.
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The Soviet economy is like a car that is in such bad shape an overhaul of the engine is not enough.
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We have seen the result of that in the Soviet economy .
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During the 1950s and part of the 1960s, the Soviet economy grew faster than that of the United States.
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The militarisation of the Soviet economy , baffling to an outsider, is complemented by a militarisation in the sphere of education.
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This should do much to ease the burden the arms race had put on the Soviet economy .
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As far as the first factor is concerned, foreign trade has clearly assumed greater importance to the Soviet economy in recent years.
embassy
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Repeated pressure on Parastaev at the Soviet Embassy produced nothing.
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There was no tracking down Richter at a hotel -- he was staying at the Soviet Embassy .
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It was bold of Tarkovsky because he knew that Soviet Embassy officials were present.
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Later he was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, where I met him again briefly in 1985.
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Parastaev was insisting to me in London that the Soviet Embassy had no role to play in whether permission would be given.
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That afternoon the passport was delivered to the Soviet Embassy for renewal on an emergency application.
empire
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The street battles of Vilnius and Riga show a brutal determination to keep the Soviet empire together.
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Multinationals, once shunned as colonialists by the developing world, have been courted as never before since the Soviet empire dissolved.
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Rhys Williams was very convincing and his books did much to whet my appetite to visit the vast Soviet empire .
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The West now viewed his government as a satellite in a monolithic Soviet empire .
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Life goes on, despite nuclear accidents and the collapse of the Soviet empire .
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Murphy retired in 1991, but not before seeing the Berlin Wall crumble and the Soviet empire collapse.
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The Soviet empire once rules half our continent - and threatened the rest.
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The public release of data from sensitive military intelligence-gathering systems was unthinkable until the collapse of the Soviet empire .
forces
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However, Soviet forces were still impressive and were being modernized across the whole spectrum.
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The Pact would provide for the withdrawal of Soviet forces following the formation of a coalition government in Kabul.
government
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They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government .
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Surprised and shocked, the Soviet government would have none of it.
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It was understood, however, that the Soviet government had refused the offer prior to Gorbachev's visit.
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At first overlooked by the Soviet government , the article was later denounced as in error.
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Following his invitation the Princess Royal visited as a guest of the Soviet Government in 1990.
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The coal strike alone will not cause the economic disaster that the Soviet government is pretending it will.
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The Soviet government is still nervous of letting the world know what happened to these people.
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For the first time the Soviet Government allowed foreign disaster relief organisations to enter its territory on a massive scale.
invasion
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Omar Mumtaz, 75, was a transport mogul before the 1979 Soviet invasion .
leader
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Following the death of Stalin in March 1953, the new Soviet leaders were also seeking to relax world tensions.
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Today's Soviet leaders are the products of a long-standing tradition of thinking about war and the use of force.
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It soon became evident that the new Soviet leader had some of the qualities associated with youth.
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After a long silence, Reagan assumed that the Soviet leader had nothing more to say.
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After Geneva, Reagan had established an informal personal correspondence with the Soviet leader .
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The others were blown up in 1982, following strategic-arms limitation talks conducted by Ronald Reagan and a succession of Soviet leaders .
leadership
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Why did the Soviet leadership decide to send him?
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The Soviet leadership enjoys no such trust.
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This new strategy was ridiculed by the Soviet leadership and opposed by the heavy engineering sector inside Czechoslovakia.
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Second, and more important, came the succession of Mikhail Gorbachev to the Soviet leadership .
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The Soviet leadership was thrown into panic.
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The Soviet leadership openly proclaimed the illegitimacy of military bases on foreign territories only after the death of Stalin.
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The Soviet leadership appeared concerned that it should ensure for itself a role in any future Middle East peace settlement.
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The Soviet leadership could anticipate diplomatic dividends from these initiatives among the non-aligned countries.
official
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To counteract Western influence Soviet officials advocated a system of collective security.
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The delegation met a number of Soviet officials and leaders, including President Gorbachev.
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Nevertheless, as the following studies indicate Soviet officials have regarded neutralisation in the Third World as a pragmatic compromise at best.
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For Soviet officials such international guarantees should become a component part of a political settlement.
republic
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Fourteen finance ministers from former Soviet republics also here are expected to mount a strong claim on bank funds in 1992.
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The former Soviet republics are still trying to sort out the relative powers of executive and assembly.
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Active follow-up with the former Soviet republics is now well in hand.
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Seven of the original 15 Soviet republics reached a partial agreement on Dec. 5 to divide the Soviet debt.
side
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The year 1987 began with the periodic enquiry from the Soviet side .
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The Soviet side sent us the names of people who would be with Gorbachev.
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The only problem is that the Soviet side insists there is nothing new.
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Later on I realised the extent to which the Soviet side could exert pressure on us in these matters.
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On Dec. 13 Landsbergis had announced that a further round of preliminary consultations had been postponed indefinitely by the Soviet side .
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In March 1985 two important changes on the Soviet side helped to relieve the image of an unremitting East-West struggle.
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The Soviet side then reiterated adherence to the Moscow agreement.
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Nevertheless, with the passage of time the Soviet side could begin to accuse us of bad faith.
society
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In Chapter 4 we look at how Soviet society organises itself for war.
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Gorbachev also was quick to admit that the process of globalization played a major role in cracking open the closed Soviet society .
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Thus there was a frank recognition of the disaster facing Soviet society if such policies had been continued.
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What is important to emphasise is that war is the ultimate purpose for which Soviet society is organised.
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These failures, however, were merely symptoms of a larger failing in Soviet society .
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The belief in a scientifically-controlled world runs deep in Soviet society .
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But today things were changing, with Mikhail Gorbachev trying to renew Soviet society and create a better life for the people.
state
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However, the myth of the moral integrity of the Soviet state more than compensated for its metaphysical shortcomings.
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Disseminating for the purpose of undermining or weakening the Soviet regime slanderous fabrications which defame the Soviet state and social system.
system
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The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress, which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system .
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He brought starkly into question all the guiding principles on which the Soviet system was based.
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Boris Yeltsin and his team wanted to privatize land after toppling the Soviet system .
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Tuva, under the Soviet system , was always an autonomous republic.
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Mr. McCartney An old Soviet system .
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Mr. Jones An old Soviet system , as my hon. Friend says.
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We inherited inefficient industries from the Soviet system .
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The subsequent crisis in the Soviet system , compounded by the Moscow show trials, exposed the dystopic methods of utopian Communism.
union
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That arrangement collapsed with the Soviet Union .
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He defects to the Soviet Union .
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Robert Conquest on the Soviet Union .
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When Carter left office, relations with the Soviet Union were worse than they had been when he was inaugurated.
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About their own camps, by contrast, the Soviet Union was able to exercise a sustained Orwellian denial.
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The athlete-trainer had a successful business, a big name, a wife and a child in the Soviet Union .
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The Soviet Union , however, once loaded the missile with a 1-megaton nuclear warhead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A quidproquo arrangement of the latter kind could prove attractive to Soviet leaders.
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Decidedly, Nizan's belief in the moral integrity of Soviet foreign policy was total.
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That Soviet ships dumped nuclear waste in the area has been suspected for many years.
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The official told him he was not yet being considered for Soviet citizenship.
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These are among the findings by the city's Nature Conservation Council on the state of the environment in the Soviet capital.