Sentence examples for under soviet power from inspiring English sources
Mr. Tsarnaev: Under Soviet power everybody was an atheist.
"Kashin would have been a dissident if he lived under Soviet power".
In 1939, as the second world war began, the Jews, Poles and Lithuanians of Vilnius fell under Soviet power.
"People of the older generation, in whom the habit of voting early had been programed under Soviet power, arrived in the morning," wrote the reporter, Vladimir Vorsobin.
For people of the older generation, who lived their entire conscious life under Soviet power, it still remains the only thing they still can think about.
"You have to remember that under Soviet power, 15 years ago, not only the so-called promotion of homosexuality was a crime, but homosexuality itself was considered a crime.
Conservatives will accuse Mrs Vike-Freiberga of naively agreeing to celebrate not so much the defeat of Hitler as the triumph of Soviet power under Stalin.
But he will be remembered longest for a bold political stroke taken in August 1991, after K.G.B.-led hard-liners had placed President Mikhail S. Gorbachev under house arrest and announced a takeover of Soviet power.
Dismissing Soviet power is easy today; then it was not.
"They had been threatened for 70 years of Soviet power.
