Once the communist party, that is, Joseph Stalin, had come to its conclusion, it could not be debated.
一旦共產黨,其實就是斯大林有了什么結論,那就是不容置疑的
So when Stalin announced that the first five-year plan announced in 1928 actually had to be completed in 4 years,
因此斯大林1928年宣布五年計劃實際要在四年內完成
it was officially declared complete in 1932, a second five-year plan started.
官方就宣布要在1932年完成,然后馬上開始第二個五年計劃
In the middle 1930's, the communist party line dictated that Nazi Germany and fascist Italy were
20世紀30年代中期,共產黨政治路線認為納粹德國和法西斯意大利
the two pillars of the evil empire and must be fought accordingly.
是邪惡勢力的兩大支柱,所以必須要和他們斗爭到底
Indeed, the USSR fought the Spanish Civil War of 1936 through 1939 as a proxy war against Germany and Italy.
因此,蘇聯在1936年到1939年參與西班牙內戰時扮演者代理人的角色來和德國,意大利作戰

But when on the eve of the Second World War,
但是在二戰前夕
Stalin thought, "Well, maybe I will sign a treaty with Nazi Germany", the communist party line was changed.
斯大林想,或許我應該和納粹德國簽個協議,因此共產黨的政黨路線就改變了
Now Germany and Italy were wonderful and all the capitalist western powers were bad.
蘇聯和德國和意大利都相安無事,所有其他西方資本主義勢力都是敵人
Communist parties around the world, all of which took their marching orders of the Communist International, or Comintern, in Moscow,
全世界的共產黨都接到了來自莫斯科的共產國際的開拔令
set a world record for the most crow eaten overnight.
也創造了在一夜間被迫認錯的記錄
Realizing, however, what happened to people who Stalin got mad at, even foreign communists were terrified of crossing Stalin's party lines.
在意識到了得罪斯大林的人的下場之后,即便是國外的共產黨人都不敢跨越斯大林的政黨路線了