As early as the middle 1920s, the Soviets were trying to meddle in China with awful results.
早在20世紀20年代早期,蘇聯人還試著干涉中國,導致了糟糕的結果
Strangely the Soviet brain-trust in China was just as keen about winning over the nationalist commander,
奇怪的是蘇聯在中國的分支只是熱衷于
Chiang Kai-shek, as they were in supporting the devoted communist leader Mao Zedong.
擁護忠誠的共產主義領袖毛澤東打敗國民黨指揮官蔣介石
The same thing happened during the Spanish civil war in which the forces of Francisco Franco,
同樣的事也發生在西班牙內戰中,弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥的軍隊同一群由社會主義者

who is still dead, fought a loose republic grouping of socialists, anarchists and communists.
無政府主義者和共產主義者組成的松散共和國小組作戰,而他自己最后還是難逃一死
The Soviets were more interested in wiping out Spanish Trotskyists than in fighting Spanish fascists.
蘇聯更感興趣的是平息西班牙的托洛茨基派而非同西班牙法西斯戰斗
When Stalin signed the famous 1939 non-aggression pact the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact with Germany,
當斯大林同德國簽定了著名的1939年蘇德互不侵犯條約,即《里賓特洛甫-莫洛托夫條約》時
he even handed over to Hitler many German communists who had fled for safety to the arms of the USSR.
他甚至將許多由于安全目的逃往蘇聯的德國共產黨人交給了希特勒