Sentence examples for soviet conquest from inspiring English sources

This time the victims of German and Soviet conquest were the victimisers.

Antony Beevor, a historian who has written about rape during the Soviet conquest of Germany in 1945, says that rape has occurred in war since ancient times, often perpetrated by indisciplined soldiers.

But with the 1940's came fascist rule, German occupation, Allied bombing, Soviet conquest, Stalinism, 30 years of dictatorship by the increasingly mad Ceausescus and finally Romania's present status as a floundering country that can barely round up its thousands of stray dogs, much less fix its economy.

And they will see that just as Medicare was not, as the right warned, the beginning of the Soviet conquest of America - heath care reform will not bring "death panels" to seniors' bedsides.

The inability of the United States to achieve a clear-cut victory in Korea following Soviet conquests in eastern Europe and the triumph of communism in China led many Americans to conclude that the United States was losing the Cold War.

A more immediate threat to their linguistic and cultural heritage was the huge number of Russian settlers who moved into the country since the Soviet re-conquest in 1944 – to the point where these Russian settlers almost outnumbered the Estonians themselves.

The Valaam monastery, closed since its conquest by Soviet troops during the war with Finland in 1939, reopened in 1989 during celebrations of the 1,000th anniversary of Russia's conversion to Christianity in 988.

Conquest believes the Soviet secret police may have been blackmailing Duranty over his sexual behaviour.

Despite its popularity, the song is highly controversial since it was sung by Soviet troops during the 1944 conquest of Tartu.

By contrast, in the east, following conquest by the Soviet army at the end of World War II, many large estates were split up or retained as state farms.

From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest (Oxford Univ. Press), Predators.