Thus, the attack on the Soviet Union ( which together with Germany had partitioned central Europe in 1939 – 1940 ) was not pressed with sufficient strength.

Thus, because of Klaus Fuchs, leaders of the Soviet Union knew the United States was not prepared for a nuclear war at the end of the 1940s, or even in the early 1950s.

Thus the capture of Atlanta, coming when it did, may have been Sherman's greatest contribution to the Union cause.

Thus, he opined that " the German government declared itself ready for friendly relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the English-French war bloc desires a war against the socialist Soviet Union.

Thus, faced with the increasing lack of democracy in the Soviet Union, they concluded that it was no longer a socialist workers ' state, but a degenerated workers ' state.

Thus, Internet access across the European Union is relatively open because of the laws forbidding discrimination based on nationality, but the fact of publication in, say, France, limits the target market to those who read French.

Thus, there are a number of bilateral Dutch-Flemish international institutions, such as the Dutch Language Union or the institutions for the control of the river Scheldt, in which only Flanders takes part.

Thus, what might have been another celebration of the Union victory became a memorial to the war dead on both sides.

Thus the cooperation begun in late 1940 ultimately developed in 1941 into preparations for re-annexation of the territories lost after the Winter War, in case Nazi Germany would realize the rumoured plans for an assault on the Soviet Union.

Thus the unification of the four provinces in the Union of South Africa, the idea of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and, finally, the great whole resulting from the combination of the peoples of the earth in a great league of nations were but a logical progression consistent with his philosophical tenets.

Thus the Eurocommunists of the Italian and French communist parties are considered to be nationalist movements, who together with the Soviet Union abandoned internationalism.

Thus, in 1999, the federal government and all provincial governments except Quebec's agreed to the Social Union Framework Agreement, which promoted common standards for social programs across Canada.

Thus in the European Union, " Parmigiano-Reggiano " is a protected designation of origin ( PDO ); legally, the name refers exclusively to the Parmigiano-Reggiano PDO cheese manufactured in a limited area in northern Italy.

Thus, the VDCS in an independent entity managed locally by the milk producers and assisted by the District Milk Union.

Thus the OB opposed South African participation in the war, even after the Union declared war in support of Britain in September 1939.

Thus Uxxx referred to the Soviet Union with the second letter denoting the specific region within it, and so forth.

Thus, from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, the Soviet Union inexpensively supplied its East European clients with hard goods in exchange for finished machinery and equipment.

Thus Kentucky's neutral status evolved into backing the Union.

Thus, Stalin assumed that the Americans would need to look to the Soviet Union, to maintain the same level of exports and state expenditures.

Thus, the Soviet Union acquired the capability to neutralise NATO's tactical nuclear forces with surgical nuclear strikes.

Thus there are Portuguese footprints all over the western and eastern coasts of India, though Goa became the capital of Portuguese Goa from 1530 onwards until the annexation of Goa proper and the entire Estado da Índia Portuguesa, and its merger with the Indian Union in 1961.

Thus, Japan wished to defeat China and conclude the war as soon as possible, to avoid disrupting its plans against the Soviet Union.

Thus, despite long exposure to the Russian language and culture, as well as to Sovietization, at the end of the Soviet era non-Russians were on the verge of becoming a majority of the population in the Soviet Union.

Thus he will be in a position to disabuse the Soviet leader of any notions he may have about grave Allied disunity.

Thus he strongly opposed both United States aggression in Vietnam and Soviet military expansionism.

Thus B3-34 defined a new command set, which later was used in a series of later programmable Soviet calculators.

Thus, when the Winter War broke out, Finland was left alone to resist the Soviet attack.

Thus the only concentration of troops in Conakry appeared to be the armoured battalion, with a modest number of Soviet medium tanks manufactured in the late 1940s, as well as Soviet APCs, and elements of the engineer battalion.

Thus, the capital of Kazakhstan lent its name to the Alma-Ata Declaration, in which eleven of the fifteen Soviet republics announced the expansion of the thirteen-day-old CIS.

Within the space of these tendencies there has developed a coherent critique of " orthodox Marxism " that includes not only a rejection of the concept of " the transition " but a reconceptualization of the process of transcending capitalism that has remarkable similarities to ( Peter ) Kropotkin's thinking on this subject ... Thus one of the earliest political tendencies within which this approach appeared after the Russian revolution of 1917 was that of " Council Communism " which saw the " workers councils " in Germany ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ), or the soviets in Russia, as new organizational forms constructed by the people.

Thus, all means were justified in keeping territories away from Soviet influence in this way.

Thus the Soviet delegation returned to the peace conference without any instructions to sign the treaty.

Thus the new Soviet government agreed to terms worse than those they had previously rejected.

Thus Soviet satellite states in Asia included:

Thus, the Russian Federation was widely accepted as the Soviet Union's successor state in diplomatic affairs and it assumed the USSR's permanent membership and veto in the UN Security Council ( see Russia and the United Nations ).

Thus, almost no Soviet employees or managers had firsthand experience with decision-making in the conditions of a market economy.

Thus Soviet state brutality and destruction of workers ' councils became identified with socialism and communism.

Thus, the Surveyor 1 landing in June 1966, only four months after the Soviet Luna 9 probe landed in February, was an indication the programs were at similar stages.

Thus, Soviet troops found themselves drawn into fighting against urban uprisings, tribal armies ( called lashkar ), and sometimes against mutinying Afghan Army units.

Thus " International Socialist " was formed at a convention in September 1969.

Thus the group felt forced to found its own party and it founded the Action group for the formation of a Party on Anti-militarist and Socialist principles in November 1956.

Thus, as the Tunisian Socialist Destour Party resisted the union plans due to their view that the arrangement was not clear enough and did not include how political institutions would be structured, Bourguiba rescinded on his decision to form the Arab Islamic Republic.

Thus the Socialist Party strongly advocated universal suffrage, in order to politically empower the working class, or " proletariat.

Thus one sees usages such as " 1812 ... Treaty of Bucharest grants Russia control of eastern Moldova or Bessarabia, the area between the River Prut and the west bank of the Dniester ," or " In 1940, Romania was forced to cede eastern Moldova to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( U. S. S. R .)…"