Sentence examples for soviet failure from inspiring English sources

Questions were now being asked about taboo subjects like the Polish Communists' legitimacy, responsibility for Stalin's crimes, the arrest of the increasingly popular Gomułka, and issues in Soviet Polish relations, such as the continued Soviet military presence in Poland, the Ribbentrop Molotov Pact, the Katyn massacre, and the Soviet failure to support the Warsaw Uprising.

Writing to John Chancellor, of NBC, in the redolent year of 1984, he argued that a sensible strategy must begin with the central fact of Soviet failure.

Siberia's prison camps were the most tactile, horrific manifestation of the Soviet failure, of the moral bankruptcy of a state trying to ensure conformity through incarceration.

He also held Stalin responsible for Soviet failure in the early stages of the war both by ignoring warnings and by "weakening" the country's morale and economy in the great pre-war purges.

Hoping to galvanize more support, rebels are evoking the Soviet failure in Afghanistan as a model for their struggle, and depicting Russia as a new occupier.

Though the West saw the Chernobyl disaster as a colossal Soviet failure, locals around Prypyat put the accent on the heroism of local fire-fighters and other emergency workers.

When Simon Jenkins, a former editor of The Times of London, warns about British and Soviet failures in Afghanistan, Mr. Perle looks heavy-lidded and even a bit bored.

Nevertheless, the spectre of Soviet-style failure hangs over the coalition as never before.

Back in Moscow, Spassky and his team were subjected to a humiliating postmortem, and Spassky's travel privileges were suspended (a standard Soviet response to failure in international competition).

The crumpled, greasy Soviet rouble epitomised the failure of Kremlin rule.

Despite the putsch's failure, some Soviet residue remains — a "coup culture" that breeds a winner-take-all view of politics.