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It looked like the Soviets had completely closed the technology gap with the US
看似蘇聯已經完全抹平了和美國之間存在的技術鴻溝
As a result the space race was now added to the already expensive east west arms race.
結果，太空競賽又增加到了已經很昂貴的東西方軍備競賽中
Costing in resources as it was, the soviet people were genuinely and tremendously proud that they had gotten into outer space first.
即使資源上的花費巨大，蘇聯人民真心地非常地為本國率先進入太空感到驕傲
The Soviet Union also spent a great deal of time effort and money supporting foreign communist parties and revolutionary movements in the so called third world.
蘇聯還花費了大量的時間、努力和資金來支持外國的共產黨和革命運動，這里指的是第三世界
Although individual American communists have helped their soviet masters mostly as spies,
雖然個人美國共產主義者大多數作為間諜，幫助其蘇聯主人
the American communist party as a political movement was an utter joke. Harmless.
作為一個政治運動，美國的共產黨完全是一個笑話。完全無害
Even in those westen European countries where communism did appear to workers, some workers, the communist parties were more of a nuisance than a danger,
甚至在那些西歐國家，共產主義確實在一些工人中出現，共產主義政黨更算是一種麻煩，而不是危險
to complicate matters relations with the USSR's relations with Tito's Yugoslavia remained rocky
外交關系上更加復雜化，蘇聯和鐵托的南斯拉夫的關系還是很冰冷僵持
and the Red Chinese, angered by the disrespect of Stalin, go figure, began picking fights with the USSR.
還有中國，對于對斯大林的不敬十分氣憤，開始找蘇聯的茬
Dimly recognising there was a problem, the Soviets tried to support African and South American
暗暗意識到存在了一個問題，蘇聯試圖支持非洲，還有南美，
quote-unquote third world revolutionaries and called on so called non-aligned nations in the Middle East.
還有“第三世界的革命者”，還有中東的所謂的中立國家
