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Example sentences for: ussr
How can you use “ussr” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Russia, now the RSFSR (for Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) is only one of several Soviet republics, which are more like states of the United States than what we generally mean by “republic,” and Russians (sometimes redundantly called “ethnic Russians”) make up only about half of the population of 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.
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.
It never means a `citizen of the USSR' or any other kind of person in Russian, though its adjectival derivative sovetskii can be used substantively alone or followed by chelovek `person,' to mean a `Soviet person.
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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