What a welcome transformation in a land that Americans have known for half a century as a captive nation.

Things like captive nations weren't just resolutions, they were real.

Almost from the moment the Soviet empire swallowed the captive nations, the fight against it began.

After all, we've had a great deal of experience with what you people like to term 'captive nations.'

The New Hope, as it is whispered among the captive nations.

Indeed, for the entire captive nation of Tibet, this has proved a cruel truth.

Well, other peoples changed their status from captive nations to free nations.

The Baltic States are only the most recent "captive nations."

Mr. Clinton thinks quite poorly of wiping out a captive nation.

But if he were running now in the former captive nations, he would get the workers' vote - about one and a half percent of it.