Gradual changes can be discerned, too, like when the intensity of Soviet-bloc countries' nighttime lights slowly increased after the USSR's fall.

同样渐变也能够被察觉，比如前苏维埃阵营国家的灯光密度在苏联解体之后出现了缓慢的增长。

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But few of the former Soviet bloc countries had better jokes than the Hungarians.

其实前苏联国家的笑话赶不上匈牙利的。

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Hungary is another of the nations in the former Soviet bloc that is now an attractive and economical travel destination.

前苏联国家匈牙利，现在已经成为一个有吸引力的经济型旅游国家。

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The Pentagon hard-liners think this attitude underestimates the Iraqi people and note that some former Soviet-bloc countries made the transition in a matter of months.

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Baker arrived in Tallahassee the morning after the election and was joined by two longtime aides, Margaret Tutwiler and Robert Zoellick, a plug-in rescue squad that had seen action in such events as the 1987 stock-market crash, the fall of the Soviet bloc and the Gulf War.

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