Some Americans want to go further and undermine him (Gorbachev), even to encourage a breakup of the Soviet Union.

有些美国人要进一步削弱他(戈尔巴乔夫)，甚至鼓励苏联解体。

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Not surprisingly, Germany has taken the lead among European countries in strongly opposing U.S. intentions to go public with a specific debt deferral plan for the former Soviet Union.

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In fact those relationships go back to the early 1990s when South Korea reestablished diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

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