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In segment 25b Homo Sovieticus
25段第二部分，蘇維埃人種
We encounter the homo Sovieticus, or " new Soviet Man" which, it was fondly believed, Communism would ultimately produce.
本節中我們來講蘇維埃人，又稱新蘇聯人，人們盲目地相信，共產主義將最終造就新蘇維埃人
In fact, years of deprivation and propaganda and anti-intellectualism had made the Soviet populace even too apathetic to be cynical.
事實上，數年來的貧困宣傳和反智主義已經讓蘇維埃大眾變得心灰意冷而不會憤世嫉俗了
Russian science, once the envy of all Europe,
俄羅斯的發達科學曾經為歐洲所羨慕
had been devoted to strictly military purposes for so long that the intelligentsia had basically gone into hibernation.
卻在很長一段時間里都被嚴格限用于軍事目的，以至于知識分子基本都進入了沉寂狀態，
That is to say, the lucky ones who avoided the GULag and the psychiatric hospitals.
換言之，有些幸運的人，躲開了古拉格勞改所或者精神病醫院
In segment 25c Gerontracy
25段第三部分，老人統治
We trace the era of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a man whose bluff, pleasant personality disguised a tiny, alcohol-sodden brain.
我們來追蹤列昂尼德·伊里奇·勃列日涅夫的時代，他粗豪坦率，親切和藹的個性掩蓋了他那狹隘愚笨的頭腦
A perfect nonentity, he did what he could to let the Soviet Union slip down into a mass of apathetic despair.
他是一個十足的庸人，盡其所能讓蘇聯衰退陷入了漠然的絕望
Brezhnev was not himself, as some believed, always old and senile.
勃列日涅夫并不是像一些人所認為的那樣，年老體衰
He was merely in his late fifties when Khrushchev was deposed in 1964.
1964年赫魯曉夫被撤職時，勃列日涅夫才年近六十
Brezhnev's handling of the Czechoslovakian Prague Spring of 1968 was vigorous.
他對1968年捷克布拉格春天事件的處理手腕很是強硬
But eventually he came to exemplify the notion of "gerontocracy" rule, and this is a definition, by extremely old men.
但最終他還是體現出了老人統治的觀念，老人統治的定義就是由非常年老的人進行統治
