Ironically, this precipitated the Soviet collapse.

讽刺的是，这些都恰好促使了苏联的解体。

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Twenty-five years after the Soviet collapse, the world is entering a new nuclear age.

苏联解体25年之后，世界进入了一个新的核纪元。

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The sense of defeat and humiliation which the Kremlin attributes to the early 1990s surfaced several years after the Soviet collapse.

苏联解体几年之后，克里姆林宫在1990年代初所经受的失败感和耻辱感才逐渐显现。

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Tanks and missiles paraded across Red Square last May for the first time since the Soviet collapse in 1991.

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Non-Romans and poor people may have seen the Pax Romana as more oppressive than a liberation, just like people saw the Pax Americana that way, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and before the beginning of the Iraq War.

非罗马人和穷人可能认为罗马和平,是压制，而不是自由，跟苏联解体后，伊拉克战争前,人们所谓的美式和平是一个道理。

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Nye agrees with Mr.Klaus that the primary causes of the Soviet collapse were economic failure and the decline of communist ideology.

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Mr Putin sees his historic role as rebuilding the ties (and influence) that were broken by the Soviet collapse.

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Yet if Africa had had too much big-power attention for its own good in the 1980s, after the Soviet collapse, arguably, it had too little.

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In search of hard currency for its oil and weapons, Russia had already established new ties with more prosperous South Korea just before the Soviet collapse.

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