The Soviet system collapsed because they couldn’t afford it.

苏联模式崩溃了，因为他们无法负担这个模式的成本。

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This was the context in which the United States attempted to grapple with the dynamics of the Soviet system.

这就是美国试图同苏维埃制度的原动力搏斗的来龙去脉。

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He was a fascinating man and a very complicated figure—a master of navigating the Soviet system and its aftermath.

他是一个非常有魅力的男人并且见解深邃——作为苏联计划体系和解体之后的专家。

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Haraszti says the Soviet system collapsed because the East European opposition successfully broke the communists' monopoly of information.

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He adds that,unfortunately, post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine, have also preserved the Soviet system in which historians are funded by the state, rather than private foundations.

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Plans for a missile defense system in parts of the former Soviet bloc have been an irritant between Washington and Moscow.

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Its historic buildings were not well maintained, but neither were they knocked down, since there was no incentive within the Soviet system for speculative redevelopment.

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This slight culminated in a more fundamental failure: while America was still hoping that Mr Gorbachev could reform the Soviet system, Russia and the rest were declaring independence.

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The Bush White House was slow to realise that the Soviet system was falling apart and clung too long to its well-established links with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader.

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