He could not stay with me long; he had to return to Prague, where, soon after, the Soviets invaded.
My country was brutally occupied by the Soviets in 1940 and 1944".
Together, they engaged the Soviets in talks that began the process of east-west reconciliation.
After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets, Anka fled again with her second husband – to arrive as a refugee, "happy and lucky, in Cardiff".
In The Ten Commandments (1956), the wicked pharaohs are supposed to remind viewers of the Soviets, and the brave Hebrews of the Americans.
Al-Qaida (usually translated as "the base") was founded – in Pakistan towards the end of the war in Afghanistan against the Soviets – to channel and co-ordinate the dispersed efforts of these movements into a single campaign.
In his analogy, the repressive pharaohs are the Soviets, while the brave Hebrews are the Americans.
The Russian embassy in Vienna confirmed the group had left the Austrian capital, where they had laid a wreath at a monument to the Red Army built by the Soviets, in the presence of 500 supporters, and was heading to Munich with a possible stop-off in Nuremberg.
(And by the way, it was the Soviets who in the 1970s first called her the "Iron Lady," and they didn't mean it as a compliment).
The Soviets attempted to transfer the cash to an NUM bank account in Zurich, but it, like other accounts, was frozen.
On the ground, Longford saw sooner than his superior that cooperation with the Soviets was impossible, and that partition was inevitable.
