The early post-Soviet years were marked by excoriating self-criticism and widespread public demoralization.

后苏联时代早期的明显标志是对自我批评的批判，以及普遍的公众道德败坏。

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For his part, Mr Yushchenko sees it as his mission to transform a post-Soviet country into a democratic European one.

对尤希奇恩克先生来说，他认为将乌克兰从一个前苏联国家转型为一个欧洲国家是他不可推卸的任务。

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But he concedes that surliness endures, even among waiters and waitresses who grew up in the privatised, post-Soviet years.

但他承认，粗鲁的现象仍然存在，即便是在那些成长在苏联解体后的私营化年代的侍者之间也是如此。

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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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(Speaking in Russian) Stelmakh says a look at school text books being published in Ukraine,the Baltics, and in other post-Soviet republics shows them to be attempts to distance those countries from Russia -- especially with regard to courses in national history.

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He supported Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first post-Soviet president, and was an early backer of Putin.

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