Compared to the Eastern Empire, the Western Empire had many disadvantages, including more foreign enemies and fewer material and human resources.

与东罗马帝国相比，西罗马帝国有很多劣势，包括外敌更多、物质资源和人力资源更少。

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The division of the Roman Empire into two parts was particularly damaging for the Western Empire because it relied on the Eastern Empire for economic support.

罗马帝国分裂成了两部分，这对西罗马帝国的损害尤其巨大，因为它依赖东罗马帝国的经济支持。

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The eastern part (which would soon unite with the central portion as the Holy Roman Empire) can roughly be regarded as the beginnings of what is now Germany, the western part, that of France.

东部(随后与神圣罗马帝国中部联合)被认为是当今德国的前身，西部则是当今的法国的起源。

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There can be little doubt that the brewing crisis between Moscow and the Baltic states poses a far more significant challenge to the Soviet Union even than the loss of its Eastern European empire.

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After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.

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