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They were sick and tired of the Soviet reality, crowded houses, lousy wages,
他們已經厭倦并受夠了蘇聯的現實，擁擠的房屋，可憐的薪水
waiting in long lines for bad food, and shoddy consumer goods, and absolutely no hope of bettering their personal lot in life.
排長隊等待領取糟糕的食物以及質量很次的消費品，以及完全無望提高個人生活水平
Khrushchev had also alienated the Soviet Communist party with his dumb economic schemes and his tendency to set up his own cult of personality
赫魯曉夫還孤立了蘇聯共產黨，因為他愚蠢的經濟政策以及其要樹立對自己的人格崇拜的傾向
What likely sealed Khrushchev's fate was his erratic conduct during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
最終裁定赫魯曉夫命運的是他在于解決1962年10月的古巴導彈危機中的反復無常的指揮
Khrushchev first sent the nuclear missiles to Cuba but President John F Kennedy forced him to take them back.
赫魯曉夫首先將和核導彈送往古巴，但是肯尼迪總統強迫他將導彈拿回去
Khrushchev's willingness to blink likely save the world from the third world war
赫魯曉夫最后統一撤走導彈，可能使得整個世界免于第三次世界大戰
but the Soviet military saw Khrushchev's backing down as an act of weakness,
但蘇聯的軍方將赫魯曉夫的退縮看做是一種軟弱
throw in a couple of years worth of disastrous harvests and the time was right for Khrushchev to leave.
再加上幾年的糧食歉收，赫魯曉夫走人的時候到了
In October 1964 Khrushchev was deposed in a bloodless revolt by his humble lackey the illustrious Leonid Illych Brezhnev.
1964年10月赫魯曉夫在其忠實的下屬沒有流血的反叛中被撤職，這位下屬就是著名的勃列日涅夫
But Khrushchev was not killed or even packed off to the Gulag
但是赫魯曉夫沒有被殺或者被遣送到古拉格勞改營
to the extent thatto the extent that politics was no longer a blood sport, the Soviet Union actually had improved.
鑒于政治不再是血腥的游戲蘇聯實際上進步了
