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Soviet Zone

noun

  1. that part of Germany occupied by Soviet forces in 1945–49: transformed into the German Democratic Republic in 1949–50 Also calledRussian Zone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Renata Szmurlo, a nurse who grew up in a Polish town near the Soviet zone and moved to Borne Sulinowo with her family after the Russians left, recalled a carefree youth of cycling past military checkpoints with her friends to visit the town’s shops.

Mary Elise Sarotte: Not only are the allies now failing to cooperate, but there’s actually new hostility arising between what is increasingly becoming the Soviet zone and the Western zone, and things just keep going from bad to worse.

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Conquered Germany was divided among the former allies into four occupied zones, and its capital, Berlin, was similarly divided, though the entire city lay in the Soviet zone.

In the third period, with the game tied at 3-3, Pavelich tipped the puck from the boards to the middle of the Soviet zone just as Eruzione was crossing the blueline.

They fled first to the Soviet zone and in April 1940 were offered the choice of becoming Soviet citizens or being repatriated to Poland, now under German occupation.

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