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  1. Sovietsnoun

    the government of the Soviet Union

    "the Soviets said they wanted to increase trade with Europe"

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  1. Soviets

    Soviet people (Russian: сове́тский наро́д, tr. sovyétsky naród), or citizens of the USSR (Russian: гра́ждане СССР, tr. grázhdanye SSSR), was an umbrella demonym for the population of the Soviet Union (1922–1991).

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  1. soviets

    Soviets were local councils or assemblies in the former Soviet Union, consisting of workers, peasants, and soldiers, who were responsible for local government, decision-making, administration, public services, and judiciary functions. The term is also used to refer to the citizens or the government of the former Soviet Union. The word "soviet" means "council" in Russian.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of soviets in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of soviets in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of soviets in a Sentence

  1. Michael Waltz:

    To those of us who are a little bit older, it reminds us of what the Soviets used to do or what the Chinese do today, where they literally have political commissars inserted at every level end of the chain of command, but they have a separate reporting chain to ensure that the military is abiding by their ideology and their political doctrine.

  2. Daniel Hoffman:

    In the Soviet days, the Soviets tried to crack down on news and exercise full control over what people could hear and read, you know, like George Orwell ‘1984’ stuff. But they weren't successful and information got in, books got in, banned information got in, russians are crafty people, and they’ll find a way.

  3. Tomasz Lazar:

    It was very traumatic for them, some lost mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters -- killed by the Soviets.

  4. Lawrence Kelley:

    But that wasn't the point. The point was that no one knew that, this lack of any humanitarian feeling was something that we slammed the Soviets for repeatedly.

  5. Michael Bryant:

    It’s rightfully so that we focus on the horrors perpetrated against the Jews, the Poles and the Soviets by the Nazis during the war, but we frequently lose sight of the first victims of the Nazis' systematic murders.

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