They'd known they were going to be in a dogfight, and wouldn't have bothered to carry the Soviet equivalent of a long-range standoff Phoenix.

"It's the Soviet equivalent of a Hail Mary pass," a desperate throw by a losing quarterback.

The Soviet equivalent is the SU-25.

If there is a Soviet equivalent of Playtex, the two Americans did not find it or any other brand-name bra.

For example the Tu-154 airliner, the Soviet equivalent of the Boeing 727, has 14 tyres, the same number as Boeing's far larger 777-200.

Bondarenko was surprised to see that the General did his own driving in a UAZ-469, the Soviet equivalent of a jeep.

Each state in the Soviet equivalent of the EEC would specialize in producing certain things for the general good.

One great difference distinguished the Soviet and German systems: there was no Soviet equivalent of the death camps.

One of the tables was set with a very elaborate Russian wkouska (the Soviet equivalent of a smorgasbord).

Biographies written in the liberal tradition come much closer to recreating the mentality of their subjects than formalistic, hagiographic Soviet equivalents.