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- noun formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
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No president in American history has confounded so many people as Richard M. Nixon, who rose to prominence in the late 1940s as a fractious Cold Warrior and who won a triumphant re-election battle in large measure because of his rapprochement with the twin symbols of communism, the nations then called Soviet Russia and Red China.
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No president in American history has confounded so many people as Richard M. Nixon, who rose to prominence in the late 1940s as a fractious Cold Warrior and who won a triumphant re-election battle in large measure because of his rapprochement with the twin symbols of communism, the nations then called Soviet Russia and Red China.
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A: There is always a sense that creeps down my spine when I come to think of it, that there were Jews, even in this conflict, who were bound to fight for their country of course, for Finland, but at the side of Germany against Soviet Russia, which is just an incredible quirk of history.
unknown title 2009
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When I was in my salad days, back in the sixties and seventies, I thought censorship existed only in totalitarian societies, societies such as Soviet Russia or the Franciscan Motherhouse, which was my address at the time.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Yeas and Nays in the Bard’s World, by guest blogger Sandi Dollinger 2009
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It has been able to play this role, and see off perceived enemies, such as Soviet Russia and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, because for the past 60 years it has been the greatest global economic power.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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It has been able to play this role, and see off perceived enemies, such as Soviet Russia and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, because for the past 60 years it has been the greatest global economic power.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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It has been able to play this role, and see off perceived enemies, such as Soviet Russia and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, because for the past 60 years it has been the greatest global economic power.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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As far as I can understand it, it seems to have been something that Soviet Russia launched into space.
No more Sputnik moments for the millennial generation Alexandra Petri 2011
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Which is how they organised things in Soviet Russia, until people realised they were being conned.
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Remarkably, Mr. Ferguson notes, the most serious challenges to the West have come not from the outside but from within: for example, Hitler's Germany and Soviet Russia.
The Birth of the Modern World Brendan Simms 2011
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