Sentence examples for soviet subversion from inspiring English sources

The American government was right to be worried about the possibility of Soviet subversion.

The object was to destroy the least credibility of any and all ideas associated with socialism and communism, whose proponents were assumed to be either knowing or unwitting agents of Soviet subversion.

America's irrevocable entry into this covert netherworld came when President Truman deployed his new CIA to contain Soviet subversion in Europe.

The Federal Security Directorate gathered information used by the Reagan administration to justify assertions of Soviet and Cuban subversion in the region.

They assumed that sooner or later more liberal secular elements of the revolutionary movement would come to power and pursue a foreign policy cognisant of Iran's vulnerability to communist subversion and Soviet invasion.

The Soviet Union's success in exploding an atomic weapon in 1949 and the fall of the nationalist Chinese the same year led many Americans to conclude that subversion by Soviet spies was responsible, and to demand that communists be rooted out from the government and other places of influence.

The baroque, though, began to appeal, at first surreptitiously, not just to those who looked to Rome – as Evelyn Waugh had – but also to those such as Blunt whose ostensibly uptight, upright manner fronted hidden passions – among them his sexuality – and who sought subversion (Blunt was a Soviet spy).

This is a good time to re-establish a soft hegemony, based on energy, bribery, propaganda and subversion, over a large chunk of the former Soviet empire.

That said, it is too bad Lynskey didn't find a way to examine how protest music (and rock 'n' roll generally) helped to undermine the Soviet empire, by far the most effective case of musical subversion since the 1960s.

Babel's real crime was not subversion or dissidence but something far more dangerous to Soviet mythmakers: skepticism.

Half a century after Kubrick's mad general, Jack D. Ripper, launched a nuclear strike on the Soviets to defend the purity of "our precious bodily fluids" from Communist subversion, we now know that American officers did indeed have the ability to start a Third World War on their own.