The USSR is sort of the extreme example of this model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » A Patriotic Post] Reference

I was born in USSR and now I live in "democratic" Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why You Should Take an Interest in Steven Soderbergh's Che « FirstShowing.net] Reference

A stamp on the back declares that it was made in USSR-occupied Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [GUIDOLON and AGOH stint!] Reference

Oh, puh-leese, Mr. Pinko, the USSR is dead, McCarthy was right, and your side lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bradbury: TV Kills Interest in Reading] Reference

The EU's resemblance to the old USSR is becoming closer by the day, who will fight for our freedoms?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

The experience of the USSR, is that you cannot ultimately shut off the message – it gets through even if suppressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Brazil: “President Lula is a nerd”] Reference

Sure the USSR is gone now, but the defense contractors have greased too many wheels to kill this system now. dbeach Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » What Is The Laser Avenger For?] Reference

Soviet Medal Badge Glory to Signalmen Pin USSR Army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medal Pin | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

The USSR was the evil empire and had no relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW WITH MARIA SHRIVER] Reference

President Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire.".    From Wordnik.com.  [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference

The collapse of the USSR was the last thing they wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rep. Patrick McHenry proposes replacing Grant with Reagan on the $50 bill.] Reference

Yeah I guess the USSR was a republic just like us right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

However, the USSR was the result of an authentic revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castro Gives Speech at Moncada Barracks Anniversary] Reference

They don't know the potential of the USSR, which is fabulous.    From Wordnik.com.  [6TH CONGRESS OF THE FEEM] Reference

Thus, the real "threat" which was to replace the USSR was a lack of democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama Doctrine?] Reference

When I left, the USSR was the evil in the world and communism was on the move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

In political terms, the USSR was the best example of the "rational adversary.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheldon Drobny: Insanity Is Trump: Bush And The Prudent Man Rule] Reference

The US and the USSR are the only nations which possess weapons of mass destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Drinking the Kool Aid] Reference

Is it true that "the plans we attribute to the USSR are a mirror image of our own"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Nuclear War: An Exchange with the Secretary of Defense] Reference

The USSR was a collection of different peoples forced by empire into one "country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

All this was back when the USSR was the enemy, and NSA has changed a lot since then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Therefore, the USSR was a far less substantial threat than Team A had believed it to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy] Reference

The decision to invade the USSR was a fatal underestimation of resources and resilience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitler's Endgame] Reference

USSR is teetering on loosing its grip but can’t afford to be humiliated internationally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business.] Reference

The USSR was a threat not because of communism, but because they were a belligerent state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

I would say it was “socialist” only in the same sense that the USSR was also socialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements] Reference

And by that time the USSR was already falling apart internally, driven by a failed economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's weapon: A dose of homecoming king charm] Reference

Even Reagan normalizing relations with the USSR was the one progressive thing that he ever did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

He remarked that the US fear of 'Soviet Might' was misplaced; the USSR was a third world country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

While China / USSR aka communism the justification different, capitalism was to defeat communism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet] Reference

First of all, the USSR was the first country on Earth to set a standard for a nationalities policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Lindsay] Reference

Perhaps many of the problems that occurred later in the USSR were a consequence of excessive spending on weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castro Remarks at Missile Crisis Conference] Reference

But what we admire most as the best and greatest creation of the USSR is the type of men and women it has produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [29 JUNE CEREMONY TO 300 SOVIET TECHNICIANS] Reference

Escape from the USSR was the primary goal, accompanied by a romanticized idea of a unitary "Georgian national state.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgia: The Ignored History] Reference

The USSR was a serious national security problem to the United States and Europe; accidental nuclear conflagration still is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McEwan Delusion: The Pseudo-Threat of Islamism] Reference

Some of the youngsters sent to the USSR are the children of Afghan Communist party members, sent with their parents 'blessings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan's Other War] Reference

Gigantic power stations are now being constructed in the Soviet Union; the USSR is the biggest producer of petroleum, coal, and steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO'S IMPRESSIONS OF MOSCOW] Reference

The Vietnam war, welfare expenditure and the space race with the USSR were the major reasons for the increased US government spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

As to when progressives will wake up to the threat they pose, as quickly as they realised that the USSR was a monstrosity ... proudlyleft.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference