The collapse of the Soviet Union has sort of liberated Russia from its history.

苏联的解体把俄罗斯从自己的历史中解放出来。

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Yet the collapse of the Soviet Union has made available a trove of new material.

然而，苏联解体让一批被收藏起来的新材料面世。

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Yet that era, which began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, ended suddenly last year.

然而，那个始于苏联崩溃后的时代，去年突然结束了。

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But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

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Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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The collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of Yugoslavia in the nineteen nineties challenged NATO's traditional position as a defensive alliance.

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The Russian-Chinese cold war ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but new problems began.

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The Pentagon also missed some positive developments, like the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin was desperate for hard currency.

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