The heart of every Soviet citizen is filled with joy.

My conception of my role as Soviet president compelled me not to intervene.

Another Soviet military legacy is the system of obligatory conscription.

It helped a local, Lech Walesa, to kick out one million Soviet troops from Poland, and in beginning the end of the Soviet Union as we know it.

Seventy years ago, 200,000 Soviet soldiers overwhelmingly male and predominantly Russian crossed the Volga River to the city of Stalingrad.

Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik (, born 22 May 1937 in Rostov on Don) is a former Soviet football player, regarded as one of the best strikers in Soviet football history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower invited Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in 1959 to open the eyes of the first Soviet leader ever to visit America.

Some 50,000 Soviets writers, journalists, officials, musicians, dancers, athletes, and academics visited the United States between 1958 and 1988.

In his own neighborhood, Putin is presiding over the re creation of a Soviet Union lite, whose success or failure now depends on decisions made in Kiev, Brussels, and Vilnius, rather than in Moscow.

Instead, using an old Soviet tactic, Putin has imposed informal price controls, which cannot hold for long in a privatized economy.

An active Russian civil society, which seemed to appear out of nowhere in Mikhail Gorbachev s Soviet Union of 1989 1990 after the long Soviet hibernation, receded far too quickly.

Few believe it is possible to strengthen Russia by creating an almost Soviet style political system, but without that system s main state forming component the Communist Party and its ideology.

Nowadays, however, the establishment is named after a popular Soviet borscht western (or eastern ) filmed in 1969 and set in Central Asia during the 1919 Civil War.

Marshal of Armoured Troops Mikhail Efimovich Katukov (September 17, 1900 June 8, 1976) () served as a commander of armored troops in the Red Army during and following World War II.

If we accepted this reasoning, we would have to accept a Soviet researcher s assertion in the late 1980 s that we must rely on the state to create jobs, because 90 of past jobs were created by the state.

Suffering from low pricing of petroleum and natural gas, ongoing war in Afghanistan, outdated industry and pervasive corruption, the Soviet planned economy proved to be ineffective, and by 1990 the Soviet government had lost control over economic conditions.

During the Cold War, the US was able to defend Berlin because our promise to do so was made credible by the NATO alliance and the presence of American troops, whose lives would be on the line in the event of a Soviet attack.

Containment, it should be recalled, was organized against a Soviet totalitarian regime that was not only ideologically aggressive and in the process of consolidating its colonization of Eastern Europe (as well as Japan s Northern Territories), but also deliberately sealed off from the wider world economy.