Sentence examples for soviet grip from inspiring English sources

Gorbachev used the easing of tensions in Europe to loosen the Soviet grip on its Warsaw Pact allies.

Now Estonians, and some of their Baltic neighbors, are slogging through their first serious economic downturn since liberation from the Soviet grip in the early 1990s.

A reader who taught at the Central European University in Prague recalls the gratitude of her students as they emerged from the Soviet grip.

But it is obvious that unless Russians create a system that promotes honesty, openness, tolerance and initiative, no change of leader will free their country from the Soviet grip.

Liberated from the Soviet grip, the Czechs could rely on the legacy of not-so-distant freedoms, the moral leadership of Václav Havel, and many other particulars that augured well for them.

In the first match against Mr. Spassky, in 1972, Mr. Fischer became a national hero by breaking the Soviet grip on world chess and becoming the first American chess champion in more than a century.

Kim Jin-hee's loyalty was first tested in the 1990s, when a famine caused by floods, drought and the loss of Soviet aid gripped North Korea.

And the Baath Party, which has clenched Syria in its tight, shades-of-the-Soviet-bloc grip for almost 40 years, easily resurrects oppressive measures whenever it deems denunciations of the government to be too harsh.

Many added an extra chant, in a sort of counterpoint: "Marg, marg, marg bar Shurawi!" Which means "Death, death, death to the Soviets!" Of course, it ended and did not repeat every night as the Soviets tightened their grip on the capital city.

Bin Laden moved his family to Pakistan as the Soviets loosened their grip.

This was at the time when Stalin's purges were pincering the Soviet people in their nightmare grip.