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Not 30 years after the Bolsheviks had knocked down the Russian empire,
在布爾什維克黨推翻沙俄的30年后
the Soviets began building an eastern European empire of their own.
蘇聯人開始建立屬于自己的東方帝國
Of course the soviets themselves portrayed it as a Pax Sovietica imposed upon these people for their own good.
當然，蘇聯人自己將其描述為為這些國家的人民帶來的蘇聯式的和平是出于他們自己利益
But in effect the Soviets were just gathering the lands, just like Ivan Moneybags had started to do 6 centuries earlier.
但實際上蘇聯只是在擴張土地，就像伊凡時期人們在6世紀之前做的那樣
At the Soviet bloc's high point the USSR's client states included Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Albania and East Germany.
在蘇聯集團的頂峰時期蘇聯的附庸國包括了波蘭，匈牙利，羅馬尼亞，保加利亞，捷克斯洛伐克，阿爾巴尼亞和東德
Each of these countries was forced into the Soviet Bloc by violent means.
所有的這些國家都被用武力的方式強迫加入蘇聯集團
Even during the war Stalin practice Stalin practiced ethnic cleansing among soviet nations he considered unreliable,
甚至在戰爭期間斯大林還在他認為不可靠的蘇聯國家中實行民族清洗政策
he was no nicer to the eastern Europeans.
他對東歐國家也一點也不好
The Soviets also tried to reel in their communist brethren in Yugoslavia,
蘇聯還試圖使共產主義兄弟南斯拉夫加入
but the Yugoslavian leader Marshall Tito was able to keep himself from being a mere client.
但是南斯拉夫的領導人鐵托卻能夠不甘只做一個附庸
The soviet bloc lay behind what Winston Churchill aptly called the iron curtain.
蘇聯集團組成了被丘吉爾恰如其分地稱為的鐵幕
Yet the west could only watch as communism spread everywhere, the red army had defeated the Nazi-Germans.
但是西方只能看著共產主義延伸到四面八方，紅軍打敗了納粹德國
