Military superiority and exporting communism.
那就是軍事優勢和共產主義的對外輸出
The arms race with the west already very expensive became even more costly as it expanded to include a space race.
和西方的軍備競賽已經非常昂貴了,再延伸到太空競賽花費就更加巨大
The soviets bungled foreign policy was also costly and dangerous.
而蘇聯糟糕的外交政策不僅危險,還很花錢
Cuba in particular was a bad investment.
尤其是古巴,是項很糟的投資
The combination between domestic and international mistakes was enough to sink Khrushchev in 1964.
國內錯誤加上在國際社會犯下的錯誤足夠在1964年把赫魯曉夫拉下臺

Segment 24b. The iron curtain descends.
24段第二部分,鐵幕落下
After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22nd 1941, Stalin realised that victory would require total commitment.
在德國于1941年7月22日進攻蘇聯后,斯大林意識到勝利要求完全的獻身精神
For that reason Stalin learned to quickly present the war as a great patriotic war against the axis minus the third member of the axis; Japan.
因此斯大林很快就學會將戰爭定義對抗軸心國的偉大的衛國戰爭軸心國的第三個成員,日本
As Stalin and the communist party now put it, the men and women fighting the war
斯大林和其共產黨當時宣布參與到戰爭中的男男女女
were not so much the builders of a Marxist workers paradise as they were the sons and daughters of mother Russia.
與其說是馬克思主義工人天堂的建設者,倒不如說他們是祖國母親的兒女
The sons and daughters of Dmitry Donskoy and General Suvorov saving mother Russia from yet another western invader.
是德米特里·頓斯科伊的兒女蘇沃洛夫將軍從另一個西方侵略者手中拯救母親俄國