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This too was an unwise investment of scarce resources.
這些在于資源有限的情況下都是不明智的投資
The revolutionaries, that the Soviets supported, were only moderately successful and the successful revolutionaries turned ungrateful.
那些蘇聯支持的革命者只是馬馬虎虎地成功了，而這些成功的革命者卻并不領情
The only solid Soviet supporter gained during these times was Cuba,
這段時間內蘇聯唯一贏得的堅定的支持者是古巴
and even the Soviets didn't support Castro's 1959 revolution so much as they bought Castro's support after the revolution succeeded.
甚至蘇聯對于卡斯特羅1959年革命的支持都不及卡斯特羅革命成功后，蘇聯為贏得他們的支持花費多
Given the West's solid support of Israel the Soviets hoped to buy friends in the Arab world,
考慮到西方對于以色列的堅定支持，蘇聯希望從阿拉伯世界收買一些朋友
they sold mass quantities of weapons to the Arab nations at bargain prices,
他們將大量的武器以低價出售給阿拉伯國家
and they even built the magnificent Aswan High Dam over the Nile in Modern Egypt.
甚至在現代埃及建成了橫跨尼羅河雄偉的阿斯旺大壩
All they got for their troubles was kicked out.
這些國家所有的麻煩都被掃除了
But every time the Israelis and Arabs fought, yes another set of east west proxy wars, the Arabs took a licking.
但是每次以色列和阿拉伯開戰時，是的，另一種東西代理人戰爭的體現，阿拉伯人總會遭受挫折
Worse the Arabs blamed the Soviet weapons and their Soviet advisors rather than blaming themselves,
更糟糕的是，阿拉伯人責備蘇聯的武器以及其蘇聯顧問而從不責備自己
all in all the Soviet foreign policy under Khrushchev was a disaster.
總之，蘇聯在赫魯曉夫時代的對外政策搞得一團糟
Khrushchev's downfall came for both internal and external reasons.
赫魯曉夫的垮臺處于內部和外部的雙重原因
The Soviet people quit believing his promises of an impending communist paradise sometime around 1980.
蘇聯人民不再相信他對于即將在1980年左右到來的共產主義天堂的承諾
