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Brezhnev was already likely senile when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979.
勃列日涅夫在蘇聯軍隊于1979年12月侵入阿富汗時確實看著老邁了
His aged successors Andropov and Chernenko were unable to get the troops out of Afghanistan
但他的上歲數的繼任者安德羅波夫和契爾年科卻無力使蘇軍撤出阿富汗
or do anything to save the fast declining soviet state
或者采取其他措施來挽救快速垮下的蘇聯
Segment 25d Fall of the Soviet Empire
25段第四部分，帝國的瓦解
Gives us the end of the USSR as we know it. It fell apart.
讓我們看到了我們所知道的蘇維埃社會主義聯盟的結束。蘇聯解體
The republics ultimately succeeded
附庸國最后都退出了
Using a right granted by them by none other than Vladimir Illych Lenin himself when the Soviet Union was founded.
弗拉基米爾·列寧在創辦蘇聯的時候就賦予了它們退出的權利
Isn't it ironic?
這一點不帶有諷刺性么？
In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev inherited a regime with a stagnant economy, massive and expensive military commitments,
在1985年戈爾巴喬夫接過了這樣一個政權：經濟停滯、軍事委托眾多并且昂貴
a corrupt, top-heavy bureaucracy and a populous that no longer cared about anything.
腐敗而頭重腳輕的官僚體系和對一切都已漠不關心的人民
By introducing Perestroika or restructuring to the economy and Glasnost or openness to political life,
通過在經濟方面引進改革措施以及實現開放的政治生活
Gorbachev hoped to jolt the Soviet Union back on the path towards communism and it didn't work.
戈爾巴喬夫希望將蘇聯拉到共產主義的正軌上，但他并未成功
