Sentence examples for soviet achievement from inspiring English sources

Like Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, he was a living symbol of official Soviet achievement.

The day the conference opened the Communist paper "L'Humanite" announced & hailed Sputnik IV, the new Soviet achievement in outer space.

The Soviet achievement shocked the Western world, challenged the strategic assumptions of every power, and thus inaugurated a new phase in the continuing Cold War.

In a public letter issued back in February, Mr Zyuganov said defaming the Soviet achievement should have no place at a time when "fascist" (ie Ukrainian) hordes were once again massing on the country's borders.

But Lev took pride in Soviet achievements such as the Volga-Don canal, even though he knew it had been dug by the labour of slaves like himself.

The All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh), the expo site in the north of the city that was a town-sized advertisement of Soviet achievements, is today a rather seedy theme park.

The grandiose and rather curious-looking complex, which is larger than Monaco, was built in 1935 for propaganda purposes, with wedding-cake pavilions dedicated to each of the republics of the USSR as well as to Soviet achievements such as electrification.

In fact, both specialized in what is now called "fake news," boasting of Soviet economic achievements while the population coped with shortages of common consumer goods, and depicting the United States and European democracies as failing societies.

This prompted Eisenhower, who generally held the line on spending, to sign the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which provided extensive aid to schools and students in order to bring American education up to what were regarded as Soviet levels of achievement.

Perhaps it is still too early, as the Chinese communist leader Zhou Enlai said of the French revolution, to make a considered assessment of the 70 years of Soviet power: its achievements, failures and crimes, its legacy to progressive politics and the search for an alternative social model.

The moon strike was an outstanding achievement of Soviet science and engineering and had opened a new page in space research".