Many Russians blame him for the collapse of the Soviet regime as a superpower.
Equally important is the need to build market economies from the rubble of the Soviet regime.
I, now, deeply regret the collapse of the USSR and probably would've favoured the puppet pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
He gives careful weight to the achievements of the Soviet regime, particularly in bringing mass literacy to Russia, and unparalleled social mobility.
Jennifer Homans, the author of "Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, " says it became a showcase for the Soviet regime, and that that legacy endures.
The Soviet regime toppled eventually, but never fast enough for her.
In 1991 the collapse of the Soviet regime spawned caviar chaos, sending millions of dollars' worth of glistening black eggs sloshing into new and unfamiliar markets.
She had few illusions about the Soviet regime, but she did not like the sight of a crowd vandalising a statue of Lenin in Grozny either.
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Not coincidentally, they continue, correctly, to show little enthusiasm for bailing out a Soviet regime that will, when all is said and done, likely remain fundamentally unreformed.
Banned under the Soviet regime, Russia now has over a thousand casinos generating revenues in excess of half a billion US dollars, an expansion unprecedented in gambling history.
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By insisting on nothing less than this sort of systemic approach, the United States can not only avoid the dangers inherent in perpetuating the present, fundamentally unreformed Soviet regime.
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Skilled observers of Romania believe that there may have been a significant Soviet role in preparing a military coup against Ceausescu designed to install a pro-Soviet regime in Bucharest.
The Center for Security Policy believes that historical experience validates the view expressed by Landsbergis and rebuts the pump-priming approach advocated by apologists for the Soviet regime like Shevardnadze.
The probability that President Bush will use the occasion of his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev and other leaders to commit vast new U.S. taxpayer resources to propping up the ruling Soviet regime.
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At the Washington Summit, President George Bush decided evidently out of his respect for and confidence in President Mikhail Gorbachev to increase still further the already enormous U.S. over-investment in the present Soviet regime.
In the hope of helping Gorbachev retain power, President Bush will evidently use the occasion of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) to promote Western "emergency" financial, food and technology assistance to the Soviet regime.
It amply illustrates, moreover, the abiding willingness of the Soviet regime, even under the ostensibly benign leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, to enlist arms control and popular sentiment in ways calculated to erode the deterrent capabilities of the United States.
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According to Mr Roy, the Central Asian specialist in Paris, the Soviet regime was anxious to destroy the pan-Islamic and pan-Turkish ideology promoted by Central Asian intellectuals in the early 20th century so it could introduce bolshevism more easily.
The collapse of the Soviet Union did not cause the Russian people to revisit the basic ideological and moral assumptions on which the Soviet regime was predicated, or link those assumptions to the eventual implosion of the Soviet empire.
Changed Circumstances: Second, I believe that Scoop Jackson would be appalled at the prospect that the United States government would press forward with a Trade Agreement signed over fifteen months ago with the ancien Soviet regime as though nothing had happened in the intervening period.
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And, says Newey, the fact that untruths have been so readily uncovered in Hungary are a positive health check for a country that only held its first elections in 1990 after emerging from a Soviet regime that brutally suppressed a popular uprising almost exactly 50 years ago.
On the other hand, if -- as has been the case in the past --the Soviet regime remains unwilling to cede real power and determined to prevent fundamental systemic change, its current, highly publicized efforts at "reform" may amount to nothing more than temporizing measures, calculated to stave off rather than effect the necessary transformation.
Worse was to follow when, perusing the Vietnam News while waiting for my chum, I read a message on the front page from President Tran Duc Luong a man educated in Moscow under the Soviet regime, for Pete's sake sending Christmas congratulations to the Catholic community and to other Christians and like-minded folk who wanted to join in the celebrations.
Before year's end every non-Soviet communist regime in Europe had collapsed.
He was waiting for the S.S., which had taken over the battle in Warsaw, to annihilate the Home Army for him, thereby removing a potential obstacle to the establishment of a Soviet puppet regime when the war was over.
He surfaced in 1987 in Peshawar, Pakistan, aiding wounded in the fight against Afghanistan's Soviet-backed regime.
Mr Karimov's Soviet-vintage regime jails and tortures its opponents.
In Vietnam, loss of its Soviet backers led the regime to explore economic reforms and better relations with its neighbours even, later, with America, its old enemy.
In the old Soviet Union, a regime that did rule by fear right to the end, there would have been no question of the Red Army politely asking a Moscow television station to tone down its 24-part show about Janko Baurovitch torturing the captured CIA agent in order to locate the nerve gas capsule buried under Red Square.
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