Sentence examples for soviet plans from inspiring English sources

Russians are suspicious of any state program after decades of ill-fated Soviet plans and the painful economic reforms of the past 10 years.

Although Soviet plans to orbit a satellite during the IGY had been discussed extensively in technical circles, the October 4, 1957, launch of Sputnik 1 came as a surprise, and even a shock, to most people.

Truman's principal reason for deciding to drop the bomb on Japan was to bring the war in the Pacific to a quick end, but his secondary one was to erect a psychological obstacle to any Soviet plans for postwar expansion.

Anyway, MI5 gets wind of Soviet plans to unleash something big, something wicked, something that weirdly goes unspecified until the trailer for next week's episode, but turns out to be a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Britain.

In years of debriefing he was able to provide much important intelligence about the order-of-battle of the KGB and the Soviet plans and concerns over a possible surprise nuclear attack by the United States.

In 1954, the former congressman led the U.S. delegation to the International Cooperative Alliance congress in Paris, successfully opposing Soviet plans to give greater representation to Eastern European countries, which was seen as a means of eventual communist control of the organization.

Thus from its outset, the Yalta decision favored the communists, who enjoyed the advantages of Soviet support within the Soviet plan of bringing Eastern Europe securely under the influence of the Soviet Union, as well as control over crucial government departments such as the security services (this activity was initially dominated by Lavrentiy Beria's Soviet NKVD).

Hence, Soviet planning was always optimal.

But it still reflects the demands of Soviet planning rather than western commercial creativity.

Three isolated concrete arches, the remnants of a piece of Soviet planning, stand eerily against a rock face.

The Soviet plan, presented by Andrey Gromyko, called instead for immediate prohibition of all manufacture and use of atomic weapons.