While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.

While most armies still maintained cavalry units at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, significant mounted action was largely restricted to the Polish, Balkan and Soviet campaigns.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

While many socialist currents advocated economic planning as an eventual substitute for the market for factors of production, some define economic planning as being based on worker-self management, with production being carried out to directly satisfy human needs, and contrast this with the concept of a command economy of the Soviet Union, which they characterize as being based on a top-down bureaucratic administration of the economy in a similar fashion to a capitalist firm.

While thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were released in the spirit of glasnost, Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union was not achieved.

While the immediate response from the West German population was positive, the Soviet authorities were less pleased with the combative Lass sie nach Berlin kommen.

While initial talk existed of a race to Berlin by the Allies, after Stalin successfully lobbied for Eastern Germany to fall within the Soviet " sphere of influence " at Yalta, no plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.

While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartent.

While in the hospital, he overheard some fellow soldiers complaining about the Soviet rifles of the time.

While direct Soviet assistance ended with the withdraw, the Soviet Union still supported Najibullah with plentiful of economic and military aid.

While Britain and France refused to allow Soviet Union to impinge on the sovereignty of its neighbors, Germany possessed no such reservations.

While active collaboration between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union caused great shock in western Europe and amongst communists opposed to Germany, on 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill declared that the Russian armies acted for the safety of Russia against " the Nazi menace.

While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and soon became very active within it.

While at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and soon became very active within the party.

While Pedersen's Nostratic hypothesis did not make much headway in the West, it became quite popular in what was then the Soviet Union.

While Hitler conquered Poland, France and other countries acting on single front at the start of World War II, the USSR was able to build up its military and regain some of the former territories of the Russian Empire during the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War.

While the Constitution of the Soviet Union described that union as a " unitary, federal and multinational state ", it was in reality a unitary state as each Soviet Socialist Republic was dominated by the Communist Party.

While Khasbulatov had been an ally of Yeltsin in this period, the two drifted apart following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991.

While satire of everyday life in the USSR was allowed, the most prominent satirist being Arkady Raikin, political satire existed in the form of anecdotes that made fun of Soviet political leaders, especially Brezhnev, famous for his narrow-mindness and love for awards and decorations.

While the U. S. Air Force had started a missile development program in 1946, it was not seriously pursued until reports surfaced about the progress of Soviet Union rocket technology and the threat it posed to the US.

While East Germany had long been reckoned as having the most robust economy in the Soviet bloc, the removal of Communist discipline revealed the ramshackle foundations of that system.

While the French economy faltered, a series of elections brought a relatively powerful liberal bloc into the Chamber of Deputies.

While much of the western bloc maintained relations with the ROC until the 1970s under this policy, much of the eastern bloc maintained relations with the PRC.

While the PRC was an ally of the Soviet Union, the U. S. sought to prevent the Communist bloc from gaining another permanent seat in the Security Council.

While his name became a household word in Romania and, to a lesser extent, throughout the Eastern bloc, he never achieved comparable fame in the West.

While other former ruling Communist parties in the Soviet bloc reconfigured themselves into social democratic or democratic socialist parties, the PCR melted away in the wake of the revolution.

While it had a reputation for being somewhat more independent of the Soviet Union than its brethren in the Warsaw Pact, it soon became one of the most hardline parties in the Soviet bloc.

While Melbourne members ( aided by a large bloc of proxy votes and the inability of all interested parties to get inside the hall to vote ) voted 4, 679 to 4, 229 in favour of the merger, Hawthorn members overwhelming voted against it by a vote of 5241 to 2841 and the proposal was defeated.

While the Republican Party began to pursue a strategy of wooing born-again Christians as a voting bloc after 1980, led by activists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, in 1976, 56 % of the evangelical Christian vote went to Carter.

While sitting as a Member of the Assembly, Kaine organized independent Members to form a voting bloc that for a time held the balance of power.

While the lion ′ s share of the blame fell on Fredendall, Kenneth Anderson — as overall commander of British, French, and American forces — bore at least partial responsibility for the failure to concentrate Allied armored units and integrate forces, which Generals Harmon, Ward, and Alexander noted had disintegrated into a piecemeal collection of disjointed units and commands.

While the center of the Russian army disintegrated, Russian regiments continued to hold on the right wing until they were overpowered, and the mercenary troops continued to put up strong resistance for several hours on the left wing.

While the Whigs disintegrated in the 1850s, East Tennesseans continued their opposition to Southern Democrats with the Opposition Party and the Constitutional Union Party, the latter capturing the state's electoral votes in 1860.

While Dick falls into the lava and is completely disintegrated, Superman rescues Batman at the last minute as the cave blows up, and takes him to Carrie in the Batmobile.

While the USSR first supported Israel, this relationship soon disintegrated as the Soviet Union felt threatened by Israel ’ s need for security from the United States.

While the regulations formerly required that the hearing officer's report be placed in the registrant's file, this requirement was eliminated in 1952.

While most modern " cavalry " units have some historic connection with formerly mounted troops this is not always the case.

While cod was formerly the main catch, today the industry centers on cold-water shrimp and Greenland halibut.

While some of the formerly named streets ( including Factory, Herring and Amity Streets ) are now numbered, even they do not always conform to the usual grid pattern when they enter the neighborhood.

While having relinquished some of his formerly absolute power, the Prince of Monaco remains head of state and retains most of the country's governing power ; however, the principality's judicial and legislative bodies may operate independent of his control.

While most cell biologists consider the term organelle to be synonymous with " cell compartment ", other cell biologists choose to limit the term organelle to include only those that are DNA-containing, having originated from formerly autonomous microscopic organisms acquired via endosymbiosis.

While C4, formerly known as EXPO ( Extended Range Poseidon ), is just an improved version of Poseidon C-3 missile, Trident II D-5 has completely new design ( although with some technologies adopted from C-4 ).

While clearing a decades-old Hawaii firing range in 2005, workers found depleted uranium fins from training rounds from the formerly classified Davy Crockett recoilless gun tactical battlefield nuclear delivery system from the 1960-1970s.

While this was formerly interpreted as evidence of an invasion (' Sea Peoples '), this is seen more and more as an indigenous development, triggered by increasing trade relations with Cyprus and Crete.

While formerly a notable zine event, this Fair has increasingly focused on " emerging " published authors in recent years.

While formerly produced in larger quantities, by 1999 world production of the essential oil of anise was only 8 tonnes, compared to 400 tonnes from star anise.

While negotiating a peace accord, he was at first held in the Savoy Palace, then at a variety of locations, including Windsor, Hertford, Somerton Castle in Lincolnshire, Berkhamsted Castle in Hertfordshire and briefly at King John's Lodge, formerly known as Shortridges, in East Sussex.

While playing for the Phoenix Coyotes ( formerly the Winnipeg Jets ) in 2005, Brett donned his father's retired # 9 for the last five games of his career.

While most of the dry-dock and production facilities were razed to make way for mid-rise apartment houses, many sold as investment " condos ", some buildings were renovated for adaptive re-use ( notably the Tea Building, formerly home to Lipton Tea, and the Machine House, home of the Hoboken Historic Museum ).

While the district serves many towns in Lower Bucks County, Newtown Township is home to Council Rock High School North, Newtown Middle School ( formerly Newtown Junior High ), Goodnoe Elementary School, Newtown Elementary School, and the former Chancellor Street School, which now acts as the administrative building for the district.

* Michael Dell, an American business magnate and the founder and chief executive officer of Dell ( formerly Dell, Inc .) While a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin, Dell started an informal business ( originally called PC's Limited ) by upgrading computers in room 2713 of the Dobie Center residential building.

While the constitution of Luxembourg formerly required the Grand Duke's signature on a new law for it to take effect, this right was stripped from him in 2008 after the monarch informed his prime minister that he could not in good conscience sign a bill to permit euthanasia in the country.

While Amaterasu is enshrined at the Honden Shrine or " Grand Shrine ", which is at the entrance to the Ise Shrine, Susano ' o is enshrined at Kumano Taisha located in Shimane ( formerly the Izumo region ), where he descended when banished from heaven.

While the meaning of the acronym " AFI " currently stems from the full title " A Fire Inside ," band members have stated that the name formerly originated from the titles " Asking for It " and " Anthems for Insubordinates.

While it is common for a federation to be brought into being by agreement between a number of formally independent states, in a unitary state self-governing regions are often created through a process of devolution, where a formerly centralised state agrees to grant autonomy to a region that was previously entirely subordinate.

While Fairchild inherited some offshore locations that were formerly National Semiconductor facilities.

While the Palestinian historian Mattar blames him as the main culprit of sowing the seeds of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli historian Elpeleg, who formerly governed both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, compares him to Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, and even to Theodor Herzl.

While Bảo Đại's State of Vietnam ( formerly Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchine ) had the Vietnamese National Army supporting the French forces, some minorities were trained and organized as regular battalions ( mostly infantry tirailleurs ) that fought with French forces against the Việt Minh.

While the Lahori continue to be based in Lahore, the Qadiani branch headquarters moved to Lahore in 1947, to Chenab Nagar ( formerly Rabwah ) in 1951 and the United Kingdom in 1984.