The Poles find Russian nostalgia for the Soviet empire not just baffling, but worrying.

同样， 波兰人一想到俄罗斯人如此怀念苏联帝国，不仅大为困惑，更是忧心忡忡。

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The paradox was that the intelligentsia’s triumph-which led to the collapse of the Soviet empire-was also the beginning of its end.

讽刺的是，苏联知识分子的荣耀之日–此后它导致了苏联的瓦解–也是他们的终结之时。

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RAND analysis of enormous economic cost to maintain and defend the Soviet Empire foreshadows the collapse of the Soviet Union four years later.

兰德关于维持和保卫苏维埃帝国的巨大经济成本的分析预示了四年后苏联的崩溃。

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So his policies of perestroika, restructuring, and then glasnost,or openness, speeded up the disintegration of the Soviet empire,".

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The Russian empire continues, though it continues under a very different way with what became the Soviet empire.

但俄帝国仍延续着,虽然是以一种,极其不同的方式,它成为了苏维埃帝国

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