However, viewed from another Angle, the Russian government is more to blame in this dispute, because of its wider failure to address adequately the history of Soviet crimes.

然而，换一个角度看问题，俄罗斯就成了这场纷争的主要责任方，因为该国变得更加不愿对苏联的罪恶史予以足够的坦诚。

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On that historic Christmas Day of 1991, the long and sad history of the Soviet Union came to a final and peaceful end.

就在这一历史性的1991年圣诞节，苏联漫长的历史终于来到了一个最后的和平结束。

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It was Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan whose policies won the Cold War and brought about the end of that monstrous blight on history, the Soviet Union.

玛格丽特·撒切尔和罗纳德·里根的政策赢得了冷战胜利，让可怕的苏联走到了历史的尽头。

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Unlike history texts promoted by former President Viktor Yushchenko, those of the Soviet era ignored or condemned Ukrainians who fought against Russian or Soviet imperial rule.

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In a protest against him on Monday in the city of Lviv, Ukraine's Congress of Young Nationalists collected old Soviet history books to turn them into pulp.

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"Considering the recent Russian attempts to re-write history, for example by suggesting Polish complicity in German aggression, we could expect Russians to publish their own estimates of Soviet war victims shortly,".

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After being artificially cut off from Europe by the dead hand of state socialism, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, and (my ancestral homeland of) Lithuania had regained their rightful place in the world and taken a very large step away from their troubled history of Russian and Soviet domination.

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Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.

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And last, but not least, its eclectic mix of Soviet history and European vibe in people and architecture offers a soft introduction to Eastern Europe before you venture north to see Lenin's mausoleum.

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