Example sentences for: ussr

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

  • 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'.

  • When Nikita Sergeevich bragged that the USSR would bury the USA, he meant that technologically and economically the Soviets would leave us in the dust, would be around for our funeral, not that they would put us six feet under.

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

  • 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.

  • But whereas the changes wrought in French by the French Revolution were canceled by the Thermidorean reaction, in the newly formed and freshly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (more commonly called the USSR or, in Cyrillic, CCCP ) wholesale changes of toponyms, following changes of personal names, did not really set in till the Soviet Thermidor brought Stalin to dictatorial power.


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