Its sister ship the Kuznetsov survived, but by the time the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the Varyag was a white elephant marooned off a port in the Black Sea.

它的姐妹舰库兹涅佐夫仍在服役，不过当前苏联分崩离析之时，瓦良格号这一白色的庞然大物却漂泊在黑海一港口之外。

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I asked myself as I drove to the White House if the Soviets were anxious to find an answer to the crisis, why this conduct on the part of Soviet personnel?

我一边驱车前往白宫，一边暗自问道：如果苏联人急想寻求一项对这一危机的回答，这个苏联人员又为什么要这么举动呢？

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Some more black and white photos of Soviet Russia.

苏维埃俄罗斯一些更多的黑白照片。

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By the end of the trip, Margaret Bourke-White had traveled eight thousand kilometers throughout the Soviet Union.

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On her first trip to the Soviet Union, Bourke-White traveled on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

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Before leaving the country, Bourke-White received permission to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

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Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.

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The Bush White House was slow to realise that the Soviet system was falling apart and clung too long to its well-established links with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader.

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After graduating from Wellesley, she was introduced to the Soviet Union in 1929 by joining a group riding horseback in the Caucasus Mountains under the leadership of anthropologist Leslie White.

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