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Brezhnev was already likely senile when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979;
1979年12月蘇維埃軍隊入侵阿富汗的時候，勃列日涅夫可能已經衰老了
his aged successors Andropov and Chernenko were unable to get the troops out of Afghanistan or do anything to save the fast declining Soviet state.
他的上了年紀的繼任者安德羅波夫和契爾年科都無法將軍隊撤出阿富汗，或者采取其它行動來挽救這個快速衰落的蘇維埃國家
Segment 25d Fall of the Soviet Empire gives us the end of the USSR as we know it. It fell apart.
25段第四部分，蘇維埃帝國的衰落，我們都知道蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟的結果，它解體了
The republics all ultimately seceded, using a right granted them by none other than Vladimir Lenin himself when the Soviet Union was founded.
附庸國最后都退出了，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? In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev inherited a regime with a stagnant economy,
這難道不諷刺么 1985年，米哈伊爾·戈爾巴喬夫繼承了政權，當時經濟蕭條
massive and expensive military commitments, a corrupt and top-heavy bureaucracy, and a populace that no longer cared about anything.
軍事承諾眾多并且昂貴，官僚作風腐敗，頭重腳輕，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,
戈爾巴喬夫引入了經濟與政治體制的改革重塑經濟結構，提倡政策的開放性
Gorbachev hoped to jolt the Soviet Union back on the path toward Communism and it didn't work.
希望能夠讓蘇聯重回邁向共產主義的正途上，卻并未見效
Segment 25b Homo Sovieticus
25段第二部分，蘇維埃人種
As the Soviet state approached its fiftieth birthday in 1967, it could look with pride on some of its accomplishments.
在1967年，蘇聯將要迎來50歲生日，此時它已經可以驕傲地回顧自己的成就
