Top: Checkpoint Charlie crossing point, in June 1968, then marking the border between East (Soviet sector) and West Berlin (American sector).

上图：1968年6月，标志东德(苏联控制区)和西德(美国控制区)分界点的查理检查站(Checkpoint Charlie)。

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In passing, Mr Reeves mentions some hapless policemen from West Berlin arrested at the city’s town hall (in the Soviet sector); most were never seen again.

书中提及一些不幸在柏林市政厅（在苏联占领区）被苏军扣押的西柏林警察，大部分人再也没有出现过。

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Being built as an exemplary “City of the sun” it scarcely had the private sector – embodying sterile and clear freshness of the Soviet urbanization.

作为“太阳之城”的一个范品，它几乎没有一个私营企业，带着苏联城市化明显的烙印。

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Soviet oil production, the most strategic sector of the civilian economy, is declining which bodes ill for meeting the rigid requirements of the domestic economy, Eastern Europe, and the crucial hard currency export market.

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By the 1980s the state gas sector that ran the operation was controlled by a classic Soviet functionary, Victor Chernomyrdin, and he held on tight to his post until 1992, a year after Boris Yeltsin became the first popularly elected leader of Russia.

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Russia allowed foreign companies into its energy sector to help it with extraction technology in the post-Soviet era.

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