Example sentences for: ussr

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  • And other figures in the Soviet pantheon or nomenclatura were likewise immortalized: Samara became Kuibyshev; Ekaterinburg was renamed Sverdlov; Simbirsk was renamed Ulyanovsk , a derivative of Lenin's original surname; Nizhnii Novgorod was renamed Gorky; and so on across the map of Russia and to a lesser extent of the USSR.

  • The problem of drawing a distinction between Russians and citizens of the USSR has been solved by borrowing the word Soviet into English as an adjective or a noun meaning a person and not an institution, except rarely as in the designation Supreme Soviet . In Russian Sovét means basically `counsel' and `council' and by extension `assembly'.

  • During the period of destalinization Stalin Peak in the Pamirs, the highest point in the USSR , was renamed Communism Peak.

  • The USSR seems an alternate universe.

  • Unless Yiddish is merely a dialect of German and not a separate language spoken almost exclusively by Jews, it differs from the Russian spoken by the bulk of Jewish emigrants from the USSR in being the Jews' own language rather than a shared language like Russian.


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