The west fears China, and rightfully so, they have been in the Soviet block for half a century, and they threatened America ever since.

西方当然会恐惧中国啊，想想看，中国半个世纪以来都苏维埃势力范围之内，而且直到现在还在威胁着美国。

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In that decade, when central and eastern Europe were still part of the Soviet block, Europe suffered low growth and high unemployment caused by two oil shocks.

在那个十年里，当时中东欧依然是苏维埃集团的一部分，欧洲遭受了由两次石油震荡引起的低增长和高失业。

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Another source might be Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet-block countries, which have plenty of helicopters, but have so far offered few of them.

另一个来源则是俄罗斯、乌克兰以及其它前苏联加盟国家，这些国家都拥有大量直升机，但迄今为止只提供了极少的数量。

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The declaration was passed unopposed, but the entire Soviet block abstained, along with Saudi Arabia.

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Italian governments did not want to upset Yugoslavia, whose independence from Moscow offered a buffer against the Soviet block.

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In part, the decline was down to the collapse of trade with the Soviet block: new trade with China filled only part of the hole.

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