Then, in 1979, the Soviet military machine swept in from the north, and one month later the Americans were gone.

Their athletes seemed mass-produced by the Soviet machine.

They were stranded by the decay of the Soviet machine, left behind as the old country was going through its difficult transformation.

Elsewhere, Ukraine rapidly developed into an important cog in the Soviet machine.

The coup, he said, convinced him that Communism and the Soviet machine were going nowhere.

The first Soviet military machine of this class, it was equipped with a rear fuselage loading ramp.

As cogs in the Soviet military machine, the three countries' armies used to sit mainly near their western borders.

And the price is right; the Soviet machines will cost about 50 percent less than any competitive machine on the market.

The bank is to ask its members to consider proposals for extra funds to speed the conversion of the Soviet military machine to civil uses.

At that age, twenty-four, the Soviet machine would not yet have ground the sentiment out of her.