1.   Its Balloon Operation Divsion will remain -- along with this inflatable model of a Soviet tank.

2.   An elite Japanese division proved no match for Soviet tanks and heavy artillery under the command of Marshal Georgi Zhukov.

3.   As the alliance tells it, its forces literally smoked out Taliban rebels holed up in a building, the final blow being point-blank fire from a Soviet tank.

4.   At regular intervals along the narrow dirt track that serves as a road are the rusting remains of Soviet tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks.

5.   A sandstorm seethed along boulevards built wide enough for Soviet tanks to turn and have clear lines of fire in every direction.

6.   But in November, Kadar formed a counter-government under Soviet auspices, Soviet tanks crushed the uprising and Nagy was imprisoned and executed.

7.   By August, Soviet tanks were grinding down the same roads that served the Nazis three decades earlier, and Dubcek was overthrown.

8.   Cabbies who learned to drive in Soviet tanks in Afghanistan come hurtling through red lights.

9.   He was one of the few well-known Czech writers who neither fled the country nor bowed to the quasi-Stalinist conformity that descended with the Soviet tanks.

10.   His homeland was being overrun by columns of Soviet tanks, the aftermath of the brutal crushing a student-led uprising against the Soviet Union.