Example sentences for: ussr

How can you use “ussr” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After all, if the bourgeois press could not get even Lenin's name right, how reliable was it about anything else in the USSR?

  • For example, The Columbia Encyclopedia , in an edition last copyrighted in 1940, has an appropriately long entry for “the founder of the USSR” under Lenin, Nikolai . How this mistake came about in the first place no one is certain.

  • 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.

  • Everybody notes that under the Russian constitution, a third defeat would allow Yeltsin to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, but the LAT alone reports a further element in the collision course between Yeltsin and the Duma: the Duma is considering bringing impeachment charges against Yeltsin, for his roles in the breakup of the USSR, in the attack on the parliament building in 1993, and in the war against secessionist Chechnya.

  • 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'.


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