So his policies of perestroika, restructuring, and then glasnost,or openness, speeded up the disintegration of the Soviet empire,".

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The Russian empire continues, though it continues under a very different way with what became the Soviet empire.

但俄帝国仍延续着,虽然是以一种,极其不同的方式,它成为了苏维埃帝国

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