However, in 1948, when the Western Allies extended the currency reform in the Western zones of Germany to the three western sectors of Berlin, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the access routes to and from West Berlin, which lay entirely inside Soviet-controlled territory.

However, both the Soviet Union and Iraq, at a minimum, secretly defied the treaty and continued research and production of offensive biological weapons, despite being signatories to it.

However, Robert Watt states that blitzkrieg holds little in common with Soviet deep battle.

However, sealed trains began carrying large numbers of prisoners to the Soviet Gulags.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

However, KGB repression of Soviet dissidents also increased.

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

However this theory ignores the fact that the Soviet Union had already suffered several important setbacks during “ reactive and defensive strategy ” of “ containment ”.

However, a primary mission of the Soviet Navy's attack submarines was to shadow every CVBG and, on the outbreak of hostilities, sink the carriers.

However, a majority of the former Soviet Republics have not yet reached pre-collapse levels of economic development.

However, most of Eastern Europe, including the Soviet sector of Germany fell into the non-democratic Soviet bloc.

However, works such as the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, which were created in the public domain, exist as free content encyclopedias in other languages.

However, that same year a massive airlift of Soviet arms to Ethiopia enabled the Ethiopian Army to regain the initiative and forced the EPLF to retreat to the bush.

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

However, during the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, Afghanistan's natural gas fields were capped to prevent sabotage by the Mujahideen.

However, the Soviet Union did not abide by the treaty when they blockaded Finnish naval ships.

However, according to Patricia Knight, they did, with the Italian Fascist government coming to own the highest percentage of industries outside the Soviet Union.

However, from the political scene following the post-1968 radicalization, the Soviet adaptation spread to the editors of mass media, sparking strong forms of self-control, self-censorship and pro-Soviet attitudes.

However ever since the European Union formed an over all streamlining and change of route plans have occurred as faster and more direct links to former Soviet bloc countries now exist and are in the works, with intense co-operation among European countries.

However the news of Godzilla's return is kept secret to avoid panic until Godzilla attacks a second time and destroys a Soviet submarine.

However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.

However, activists remembered the messy crash of the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered Cosmos 954 satellite in Canada in 1978, and the 1986 Challenger accident had raised public awareness of the possibility of explosive spacecraft failures.

However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995 ; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996 ; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997 ; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998 ; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.

However, since 2001, more emphasis has been placed on Defense-Independent Pitching Statistics, including Defense-Independent ERA ( dERA ), in an attempt to evaluate a pitcher's performance regardless of the strength of the defensive players behind him.

However, even early in its history some star players, such as James Creighton of Excelsior, received compensation, either secretly or indirectly.

However, players with strong smashes will sometimes use the shot to create openings, and players commonly smash weak returns to try to end rallies.

However, because it relies on lack of concentration or discipline by the batsman, it can be risky against patient and skilled players, especially batsmen who are strong on the leg side.

However, players are free to, and often do, invent " house rules " to supplement or even largely replace the " standard " rules.

However, purely negative play is rarely a winning strategy: successful players ( in all versions other than golf croquet ) will use all four balls to set up a break for themselves, rather than simply making the game as difficult as possible for their opponents.

However, some players prefer to use an endgame procedure called " poison ".

However, the team was wracked with dissension, with some players ( including Feller and Mel Harder ) going so far as to request that Bradley fire manager Ossie Vitt.

However, filming during the season cost the players valuable rest days leading to fatigue towards the end of the season.

However, in the 1950s little investment was made either for players or to The Valley, hampering the club's growth.

However, the club was forced to sell players such as Rob Lee to help pay for a return to The Valley, which eventually happened in December 1992.

However, the original Counter-Strike is still available and played by many people via Steam, as the two variants are quite different, and players inevitably prefer one variant over the other.

However, upright bass players using their instruments in these contexts faced inherent problems.

However, the supply of number tokens is smaller than the number of hexes in the scenario: when the number tokens run out and players expand into a new part of the outlying islands, number tokens are moved from the main island to the outlying islands.

However, as of February 2009, at least four players must wear numbers between 50 and 79 on first, second, or third down, which by rule would make them ineligible receivers.

However, it is not uncommon for classically trained violinists to play folk music, and today many fiddle players have some classical training.

However, that figure was reduced in later years when it was determined the survey also included people who play NCAA bracket pools, which are not exactly fantasy sports ( where you pick individual players ).

However, the Marlins did send four players to the All-Star Game ( Willis, Lo Duca, Castillo, and Cabrera ), tying a team record.

However, after increasing demand of salary in their arbitration years and uncertainty of stadium situation, the Marlins pulled the trigger on dealing slugger Miguel Cabrera and southpaw Dontrelle Willis to the Detroit Tigers for outfielder Cameron Maybin, southpaw Andrew Miller, reliever Burke Badenhop among the six players received by Florida.

However, the front office's demand for quantity over quality in their return for their cornerstone players hurt them dearly.

However, the court players may catch and touch the ball in the air within it as long as the player starts their jump outside the zone and releases the ball before they land ( landing inside the perimeter is allowed in this case as long as the ball has been released ).

However, the British Museum refused to release the set despite assurances that the players would wear gloves.

However, several former players interviewed by Sports Illustrated said that while payments for good hits and sacks were indeed considered part of the game, bounties for intentionally injuring opponents violated an unwritten code.