Such were a few indicators of a thoroughly
sovietized Afghan air service marked by the "stovepiping' of information and decision-making generally at the highest levels.
The Estonian well-developed network of cultural institutions suited the Soviet authorities, who adopted and
sovietized the content and model of cultural policy.
In 1959, when Jakimavicius was born into the era of Lithuania's Soviet occupation, there had already been 16 years to try to eradicate the collective memory of a resilient nation and to dictate a new,
Sovietized past.
The three illustrations in this section give the visual--if ludicrous--impression of how Pushkin became "
Sovietized." Thankfully, Pushkin survived the Soviet era, and this volume will help solidify the world-wide status that he deserves.
and Rafal Raciborski, "Postcolonialism: A Valid Paradigm for the Former
Sovietized States and Yugoslavia?" East European Politics & Societies 18, no.
This is an America read through memorial pasts, in Nabokov's case
Sovietized Russia, in Bellow's Jewish Europe into his Quebec childhood.
Talbot argued that the war was a fight against "the anti-Christian propaganda and practices of the Loyalist government, composed as it is of communists, anarchists, syndicalists and atheist groups" who "would not stop until the whole of Spain were
Sovietized." He then made a statement in America that would stun readers today: "Collaboration with fascism is possible for the Catholic church; a collaboration with communism is absolutely impossible for the Catholic church."
Sovietized economic policy brought Europeans from the countryside into drab, instantly obsolescent workers' towns with unprepossessing names like Nova Huta, "New Steelworks."
Having survived the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the Ottoman Turks and a failed First Republic between 1918-1920, Armenia was forcibly
Sovietized. Freedom's loss was ballet's gain, as a healthy and successful ballet tradition developed during that period.
Uzbek scholar, Tolib Saidbayev, argues that under communism Muslims lived in "two dimensions: 'in the one, relating to the public sphere, Central Asians were thoroughly
Sovietized in their attitudes, values and loyalties; in the other, relating to the private sphere, they retained "a largely traditional outlook, their world shaped-by customs and preconceptions that were rooted in Islamic practice.'"
"
Sovietized," France would certainly undergo the same fate
The maktabis (those who have gone to school) were looked upon with disdain by many in those earlier years as they were seen to symbolize either the Westernized or
Sovietized elite who had departed from "true" Islamic Afghan identity.
Many chose or were effectively forced into exile in the West (hearing about numerous cases of Polish exservicemen who had returned to the
Sovietized Poland and were brutally incarcerated).
