Soviets

Example Sentences

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By giving his best to the end, he made the American side as good as it needed to be to beat the Soviets in the medal round and Finland for the gold.

From The Wall Street Journal

So many unskilled Americans descended on the U.S.S.R. that by 1938 the Soviets started requiring U.S. visitors to show proof of return travel.

From The Wall Street Journal

Most of Finnish Karelia was grabbed by Joseph Stalin's forces in 1940 after the bloody Winter War, when Finland put up stiff resistance to the Soviets despite overwhelming odds.

From Barron's

Mounted on rail lines, the missiles could be moved about to evade detection by the Soviets.

From Los Angeles Times

Two weeks after the Nazis invaded from the west, the Soviets invaded from the east.

From Literature