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For a wealthy country like the US which came out of World War Two with a booming economy the arms race was still a hideously expensive luxury.
對于美國這樣一個富有的并且從二戰(zhàn)后經(jīng)濟實現(xiàn)了騰飛的國家來說，軍備競賽也是一種可怕而奢侈的開銷
For the USSR still reeling from the great patriotic war, the nuclear arms race cancelled out Khrushchev's early emphasis on consumer goods.
而蘇聯(lián)仍然處于從衛(wèi)國戰(zhàn)爭中的艱難恢復之中，核軍備競賽就撤銷了赫魯曉夫開始對于消費品生產(chǎn)的重視
As long as the Soviet people thought the communist workers paradise was on the horizon, maybe even by 1980,
只要蘇聯(lián)人民認為共產(chǎn)主義的工人天堂即將來臨，或許就在1980年
they could accept military spending as a means to this end.
他們就可以接受在軍事上的花銷，認為這是達成此目的的一種方法
And through the middle 1950's the Soviet Union's prestige remained high,
整個20世紀50年代中期，蘇聯(lián)的威信一直很高
spurred on by Khrushchev's secret speech exposing Stalin's cult of personality and his crimes,
尤其受到赫魯曉夫秘密演說的促進，報告中揭露了斯大林的個人崇拜和所犯罪責
the communist party of Hungary tried desperately to create a true democratic multi party government.
匈牙利的共產(chǎn)黨很努力地嘗試創(chuàng)建一個真正的民主多黨派政府
Fearing that the contagion of democracy might be spreading to other client states and this is the domino theory again,
因為害怕追求民主的思想可能會傳染給其他的附庸國，這又一次體現(xiàn)了多米諾理論
the USSR intervened powerfully and brutally, directed by the young Soviet Ambassador Yuri Andropov, we'll see him again,
蘇聯(lián)很強勢并殘暴地進行干預，由年輕的蘇聯(lián)大使尤里，安德羅波夫領(lǐng)導，我們之后會再提到他
Soviet tanks smashed the Hungarian revolution to bits.
蘇聯(lián)的坦克將匈牙利的革命碾的粉碎
Soviet national pride took a quantum leap in 1957 when Sputnik the world's first space satellite sent into orbit.
蘇聯(lián)的國家自豪感在1957年達到了高峰，當時世界第一顆人造衛(wèi)星“伴侶號”被送到了太空軌道上
