Home › Words › R › resovietizeresovietizeresovietize means to Sovietize again.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, resovietize ranks #34,865 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom re- + Sovietize.verbTo Sovietize again.e.g.“According to Crankshaw, one of the main reasons for Khrushchev's fall was his failure to “resovietize” western Ukraine quickly and thoroughly after its reannexation from the Germans in 1944.” — 1992, David R. Marples, “Khruschev, Kaganovich and the 1947 Crisis”, in Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 86:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).