Sentence examples for under soviet hegemony from inspiring English sources

On October 7, 1949, the Soviet zone of occupation was transformed into a separate, nominally sovereign country (if under Soviet hegemony), known formally as the German Democratic Republic (and popularly as East Germany).

He added, "Many of the countries that lived under Soviet hegemony are actually far better off, in terms of having a protected identity, than Western Europe or the United States".

But so do Kazakhstan, and, recalling its Soviet hegemony, Russia.

On a knife-edge Not quite so keen Dumas goes down ReprintsIn the cold war, the iron curtain demarcated communism and Soviet hegemony.

The emergence of separatist tendencies in the early 1990s, following the loosening of Soviet hegemony over eastern Europe, ultimately led to the breakup of the federation.

Just nine months before the Kremlin stood aside as the Berlin Wall fell, the C.I.A. was confidently asserting that Moscow's long-range objectives included preserving Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe and driving a wedge between Western Europe and the United States.

This might understate the importance, for instance, of American support for the "good" Western values of human rights, democracy and market economics that emboldened millions of Eastern Europeans in 1989 to revolt against Soviet hegemony.

American hegemony is preferable to fundamentalist Islamist hegemony, just as it was preferable to Soviet hegemony.

This was the only formal change that survived the end of Prague Spring, though the relative success of the nonviolent resistance undoubtedly prefigured and facilitated the peaceful transition to liberal democracy with the collapse of Soviet hegemony in 1989.

Under Soviet rule, veils were widely discouraged.

Mr. Tsarnaev: Under Soviet power everybody was an atheist.