sovietize
- v bring under Soviet control, of a country
- v model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union
Castro sovietized Cuba
- George Bernard Shaw looked over his garden wall and snorted that Britain must sovietize her industries.
- He argued that it would "sovietize" agriculture; that it would set up a great bureaucracy in the government; that it was price-fixing; that the farmer and consumer would pay and .
- Last week, at 73, Petru Groza died of intestinal cancerthe first and most unlikely front man the Communists used in their drive to sovietize Eastern Europe.