Recall the importance of the Helsinki accords in de-legitimizing and weakening the Soviet government.
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In addition, of course, as with all credit arrangements, we must be certain of the credit-worthiness of the Soviet Government.
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These companies currently are planning to sign in early April an unprecedented umbrella agreement between themselves and the Soviet government.
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In doing so, they are obliged to grant the central Soviet government the authority to negate virtually any act of a republic.
Bill Bradley once put it, we might as well 'burn' our money as give it to the Soviet government under present circumstances.
It was translated into 26 languages (Russian being an exception, the Soviet government assuming, incorrectly, that it was a paean to capitalism).
Many American firms are facing serious financial losses, if not bankruptcy, because of the failure of the Soviet government to pay their bills to American suppliers.
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And then the Soviet government did not tell people about the accident for days, during which time children drank locally produced milk, which contained the radioactive iodine.
"It was accepted at the time, as it is now, that sales by the Soviet government were valid, as were later acquisitions of the paintings, " it contested.
It could lead to a situation where Europe's and Japan's technological and financial resources may be put ever more liberally at the disposal of the Soviet government.
The old Soviet government had wanted Zelenograd to be its Silicon Valley: it used some of its last foreign credits to buy and install Japanese-made equipment there.
Helen Sharman was the first Briton to go into space in 1991 on Project Juno, a cooperative project between a number of UK companies and the Soviet government.
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Moreover, this facility will constitute a significant hedge against the possibility that a future Soviet government may seek to curb its citizens' access to Western information (emphasis added).
The Soviet government punished dissidents by expelling them, Bykov wrote.
Taken together, these represent the first securities issued by the Soviet government since the 1917 Russian Revolution at which time the Soviets defaulted on debts incurred by Czarist regimes.
The development of commercial and economic relations with other states, irrespective of the political forces that are temporarily ruling those countries, is in conformity with the policy of the Soviet Government.
Directly funded by the Soviet government, CPUSA worked tirelessly to counter anti-Soviet rhetoric, expand its membership, and distribute its own version of the truth in order to create support for the Evil Empire.
For the Soviet government and its tsarist predecessors (Tashkent was captured by the tsar's army in 1865) Central Asia was the Muslim south, a backyard (and a front-line against British mischief from India).
The Center for Security Policy is concerned that the Soviet government's decision to deny Western press and diplomats access to the republic of Azerbaijan is greatly complicating the task of accurately monitoring the conflict.
Such a repudiation should be manifested by the Soviet government announcing that the people of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and, indeed those throughout Eastern Europe, could henceforth determine their own destinies, free of Soviet domination or interference.
What is clear already, however, is that -- whether the Soviet government was involved in arson or not -- the Kremlin is the prime beneficiary of the devastating impact this blaze will have on the U.S. embassy's operations.
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Finally, the Center believes this evidence of unacceptable conduct at the highest of the Soviet government offers further compelling evidence as to why a formal "second opinion" on the prospects and implications of Soviet behavior is so urgently required.
In his younger days, he was frequently dismissed from various posts because of his criticism of the Communist system's economic failings, and played a prominent part in the Civic Forum movement that helped oust the pro-Soviet government in 1989.
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Western assistance in lieu of a fundamental change in the nature of the Soviet government is more often than not used by the Soviets as a substitute for the required shift in Soviet resource allocation from military to civilian, not a stimulus.
"In the more than 90 years since the painting was nationalised, the more than 70 years since the Soviet government sold the painting and the almost 50 years since Clark bequeathed it to Yale, witnesses have died and documentary evidence has been lost, " it said.
This outcome was due largely to the determination of the Japanese Foreign Ministry to preserve the integrity of Japan's traditional policy of demanding the unconditional return of the territories and widespread skepticism in Japan over the portentous, recentralizing direction of the Soviet government under Gorbachev's leadership.
Accordingly, Western governments and publics should immediately join those within the East bloc who are calling upon the Yakovlev Commission and the Soviet government formally to repudiate the August 1939 agreements and the Nazi-Soviet collaboration in political, economic and military spheres of which they were a part the repercussions of which are still being felt.
As a practical matter, given the transparent insolvency of the Soviet central government, such assistance would actually amount to providing Moscow not with American loans, but outright grants irrecoverable gifts from the U.S. taxpayer.
As a practical matter, given the transparent insolvency of the Soviet central government, such assistance would actually amount to providing Moscow not with American loans, but outright grants -- irrecoverable gifts from the U.S. taxpayer.
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