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Verb: sovietise  sow-vee-ut-Iz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: sovietize)
  1. Bring under Soviet control, of a country
    "The USSR sought to sovietise Eastern European countries after World War II";
    - sovietize
     
  2. Model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union
    "Castro sovietised Cuba";
    - sovietize

Derived forms: sovietised, sovietising, sovietises

Type of: join, model, pattern

Encyclopedia: Sovietise