For more than 50 years, citizens of the Soviet Union who were allowed to leave understood that they would not be welcome back as visitors.

Of the 50 million people who died in the war, roughly half were citizens of the Soviet Union.

Approximately 2,000 citizens of the Soviet Union lived in homes with Americans through a Rotary International program.

Like almost every citizen of the Soviet Union, the Brodskys had their housing needs managed, diplomatically speaking, by the government.

Here at the Sydney Games, other former citizens of the Soviet Union have mounted the medal stand for adopted countries.

The propiska was recorded both in the internal passport of the citizens of the Soviet Union and at the local governmental office.

"Me constitution of 1936 guarantees free expression to all citizens of the Soviet Union, as any schoolgirl knows."

"For every citizen of the Soviet Union, it can be only one day in his life to see the Pope."

Finally, let me say how deeply moving I have found my discussions with various citizens of the Soviet Union.

They saw themselves as citizens of the Soviet Union, not Estonia.