Sentence examples for soviet sweep from inspiring English sources

Zhukov was heavily involved in the Battle of Kursk (July 1943) and directed the Soviet sweep across Ukraine in the winter and spring of 1944.

Eventually, some twelve hundred people gathered in the forest, and, by 1944, when the Soviets swept westward and liberated the area, only fifty or so had died.

Led by the legendary three-sport star Vsevolod Bobrov, the Soviets swept all six games to set up what amounted to a gold medal game versus the Canadians, who were represented by the amateur champion Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen.

Soviet women swept the 10 kilometer race, which was the first medal sweep for the Soviets at the Winter Olympics.

Sima Wali left Afghanistan 23 years ago when the Soviet Army swept into her country.

In 1979, when Soviet troops swept into Afghanistan, an angry Jimmy Carter organized an unofficial alliance to give the Soviets "their Vietnam" (which Afghanistan became).

A description of Fifth Avenue: "It was fall and the leaves were turning, and as they piled, the doormen dressed like midranking Soviet officers swept them into the gutter".

In 1979, Soviet forces swept in from the north, beginning 22 years of war, destruction and tyranny that ended only with the collapse of the Taliban last year.

The fact no one disputes is that, at the end of World War II, the Soviet military swept into northern Korea and installed a friendly Communist government while an American military administration assumed control in the south.

Within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated, as Soviet armies swept in from the east and captured Hitler's stronghold in Berlin.

The talk in Moscow is of restoring the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky -- the first head of the secret police, and a man who can justly be called the Patriarch of the Gulag -- to its place in Lubyanka Square, right in front of the headquarters where so many innocent Soviets were swept into Solzhenitsyn's sewer system.