As in the rest of the Soviet Union, priority was given to heavy industry, with a special emphasis on mining and commercial fishing.

In comparison to the rest of the Soviet Union, we're quite well supplied in consumer goods.

Brazauskas has stressed the need to regain lost markets in the rest of the former Soviet Union.

And which country is a model for much of the rest of the former Soviet Union?

All three economies were dependent upon imports, especially oil and gas, from the rest of the Soviet Union.

The gap in output per person between these four republics and the rest of the Soviet Union actually widened from 1970 to 1988.

Nor did the north suffer as much from the shortages that afflicted the rest of the Soviet Union.

The adults in the cast were famous actors from the rest of the Soviet Union.

They, at least, must know what was going on, even if the rest of the Soviet Union (let alone the world) did not.

As with the rest of the Soviet Union, the same street names were changed.