Then only the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and China had acquired nuclear weapons.
The Pact was to assure a mutual "peaceful coexistence" between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
As the Soviet Union deserted both battlefields, no corner of the world was left unchanged.
When the Warsaw Pact disbanded and the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO had fulfilled its role.
In contrast, the Soviet Union went into an economic death spiral trying to keep up.
If one once spoke of containing the Soviet Union, containing it today works both ways.
The most vehement of the latter camp see parallels with the Soviet Union and its collapse.
The Soviet Union is no longer the only ballistic missile threat to the United States.
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In 1937, the Soviet Union executed eight army leaders as a purge under Josef Stalin continued.
The remaining 50 percent is imported from the Soviet Union and the other Baltic states.
By 1991, the policy was gone, the Soviet Union had collapsed, and the birthrate plunged.
No action should be taken under these circumstances to grant the Soviet Union most-favored nation status.
One illuminating example comes from 1989, as the Soviet Union began withdrawing its soldiers.
If you were tracking Ivan (the Soviet Union and its allies), you had Harris Tweed.
Optimism about the effect of economic reforms in the Soviet Union is, therefore, unwarranted.
It is against this backdrop that American policy toward the Soviet Union must be developed.
In the 1930s, in the larger cities of the Soviet Union, abortions outnumbered births.
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The Soviet Union deployed 1, 547 ICBMs with a like number of independently targetable warheads.
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The Soviet Union finally collapsed long after its only working economy was the black market.
India no longer needs to play the United States off against the Soviet Union.
He also understood the need to wage a "war of ideas" against the Soviet Union.
The regime, sustained by a flow of food and ammunition from the Soviet Union, held firm.
And that many believe their living standards now are worse than under the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union had invaded and occupied Afghanistan, energizing many young Sunni Muslims.
The main job, during the cold war, was to defend Europe from the Soviet Union.
The shark of course was the Soviet Union, which still had 100, 000 troops in Hungary.
But continued upheaval in the Soviet Union has led to growing worries about a possible default.
The Soviet Union, after an initial spurt of industrialization, was a model of economic failure.
Under Mr Putin, Russia glorifies the Soviet Union's defeat of Hitler, and whitewashes everything else.
Older and poorer Georgians, in particular, are struggling and some feel nostalgic about the Soviet Union.
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