Sentence examples for during Soviet years from inspiring English sources

The dome was renovated during Soviet years.

Further distortions occurred during the Soviet years, when an adherence to a "formula" was the expectation during the Stalin years and for some time after that.

Mr. Pärt has written many religious works and did so even when atheism was required during the Soviet years.

Propaganda has become more sophisticated and possibly more effective than it was during the Soviet years, when television was a tool used to sustain an ideology.

His 1947 poems Idylls of Semeniskaiai became popular in Lithuania during the Soviet years, while the subsequent poems, Reminiscences, were banned.

That he was one of the favorites of the Communist authorities during the Soviet years possibly explains why he was seldom performed in the West.

Still, Abdul Wahid Taqat, a K.G.B.-trained intelligence officer during the Soviet years and now a military analyst who lives in an apartment near the Mikrorayon, said that he believed a powerful army and a muscular government were a valuable legacy.

Morrison feels that this revised ending was a comedown, as was the whole 1940 score, and that it foreshadowed a coarsening of Prokofiev's style during his Soviet years.

But in most rural areas, where the population lives on small, basically inefficient farms that held out against collectivization during the Soviet years, unemployment is high, sometimes exceeding 25%.

The dissidents of the last Soviet years became the heroes of the first post-Soviet years.

This at once recalled the dark days of hyperinflation during the post-Soviet years of the early 1990s.