Sentence examples for soviet way from inspiring English sources

"But instead it was done in a totally Soviet way".

The Soviets, he noted, had a law in their penal code outlawing defamation of the Soviet way of life.

They attended meetings, held jamborees, wore uniforms with red scarves and frolicked at summer camps, where they were indoctrinated in the Soviet way of life.

"Putin is, so to speak, launching a Soviet way of solving problems," said Igor Bunin, one of Russia's more astute analysts.

Built in the year of Sputnik, it seemed to suggest the Soviet way of doing things – an egalitarian, centrally planned, mass-production economy – was getting results.

"And this elite, from the vice premier to the governors, they are even closer to the Soviet way of visualizing this problem.

"They are trying to restore the old Soviet ways, not in the worst sense, of course.

President Vladimir V. Putin, despite his grudging acceptance of the decisions in Ukraine, has taken a small but vital step toward liberating Russia from the old Soviet ways.

For Shushkevich the reversion to Soviet ways is a big disappointment from the heady days of 1991, when he hosted Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine at the meeting in which the Soviet Union was formally buried.

MOSCOW — Russia's upper house of Parliament moved to strengthen controls over the Internet and nonprofit organizations on Wednesday, prompting a warning from the United Nations human rights chief that the Kremlin is sliding back into Soviet ways.

But while the boundaries between Soviet republics were fluid, today this sliver of Lithuania, known by the name of its largest town, Dieveniškės, is separated by security fences from Belarus, with its entrenched Soviet ways, and by awkward geography from the relative progress of the rest of Lithuania.