The Soviet rulers who tried to insinuate control over it failed.

He remained wonderfully flexible under succeeding Soviet rulers and for a while seemed to be getting along just fine with Mr. Gorbachev.

Disagreeing with the Soviet ruler, even indirectly, made his heart thud and sweat spring out on his high forehead.

The Soviet rulers stood on the very edge of chaos, looking down at the grave.

In the years after the end of the war, thousands of Lithuanians fought a doomed war of resistance against their new Soviet rulers.

In 1939 the society was shut down and banned by the newly-arrived Soviet rulers.

He was an inconvenient governor for the Soviet rulers.

It says a lot about the quality of US diplomatic thinking that the Americans were flattered to be put on the same level as the Soviet rulers.

Soviet rulers had thought they would break in prison.

One, for instance, refers not only to the supreme Soviet ruler, Stalin, but to the lowest mark a Soviet school child can receive.