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, this did little to stem the Ottoman advance in Asia Minor.

However, with his campaigns in India exhausting the state treasury, and with his troops stretched thin throughout Central Asia, Ahmad Shah lacked sufficient resources to check the advance of Qing forces.

However, it seems that the Duke ’ s favoured scheme was to return to the Moselle valley ( where Marshal Marsin had recently taken command of French forces ) and once more attempt an advance into the heart of France.

However, Dyson was not the first to advance this idea.

However, few of these had a significant impact on the advance of the industry.

However, all prizing must be determined in advance of the competition and can not be influenced by the fees or number of participants.

However, the Ethiopians had risen early for Church services, and upon learning of the Italian advance, swept forth to meet it, and crushed the Italians.

However, Charles E. Schumer had probably summarized the prospects of Kemp's success in advance best when he said in 1989, " Good ideas with money can do a whole lot.

However, the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy warns that " the borderline between such ' second-order ' reflection, and ways of practising the first-order discipline itself, is not always clear: philosophical problems may be tamed by the advance of a discipline, and the conduct of a discipline may be swayed by philosophical reflection ".

However, they failed to advance to the American League Championship Series as they lost the American League Divisional Series in three straight games to the eventual World Series champion New York Yankees.

However, New York went on to defeat the Raiders in the AFL Championship to advance to Super Bowl III where the Jets won what would come to be known as the Lombardi Trophy much to the fury of Raider fans.

However, the role of Northumberland is not clear ; his position was with the reserve — behind the King's line — and could therefore not easily have moved forward without a general Royal advance, which did not take place.

However, on 23 August 1992 the Republic of China government, by then only in control of the island of Taiwan and a few minor outlying areas, severed diplomatic relations with South Korea in advance of its announcement of formal recognition of the People's Republic of China based in Beijing.

However, the Redskins could only advance to the Raider's 27-yard line and came away with no points after kicker Mark Moseley missed a 44-yard field goal attempt.

However, the complexity and difficulty of finding agreement on these issues proved insurmountable, and instead the parties adopted a 2-year " Plan of Action " to advance efforts and to devise mechanisms for implementing the Kyoto Protocol, to be completed by 2000.

However, with the advent of weather radar, areas near a local office could get advance warning of severe weather.

However, his advance had slowed to a crawl by late July, due to logistical difficulties, exacerbated by the American destruction of a key road, and the army's supplies began to dwindle.

However, the Transvaal authorities had advance warning of the Jameson Raid and tracked it from the moment it crossed the border.

However, with a thimble that will ratchet or friction slip at a certain torque, the micrometer will not continue to advance once sufficient resistance is encountered.

However, the fighting had slowed down the Yorkist advance sufficiently to allow King Henry to receive substantial reinforcements under the command of Lord Strange, on arriving at Nottingham on 14 June.

However, Gen. Horrocks ' XXX Corps ground force's advance was delayed by the demolition of a bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal, as well as an extremely overstretched supply line, at Son, delaying the capture of the main road bridge over the Meuse until 20 September.

However, he consented to Operation Market Garden, giving it " limited priority " in terms of supplies but as part of his advance on a broad front.

However heavy rains soon slowed their advance through the country.

However, the emperor's unwillingness to advance past this line caused the destruction of the empire's ally, Xia, by the Wei.

However, the momentum of the advance did not last.