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If the crop failed, the Soviet Union would come in and take its cut first and let the peasants to starve.
如果糧食收成不好，蘇聯政府會先行收取糧食，讓一無所有的農民活活餓死
Medical and cultural conditions were appalling likewise, and moving to the city was not only unlikely, it was illegal.
醫療和文化條件也非常糟糕，想要移居到城市里不僅不可能，而且還是違法的
Simply put, the Soviet Unions' peasants had reverted to serfdom.
簡而言之，蘇聯的農民回到了農奴的狀態
From Peter the Great's time on, Russia had embraced Western culture;
從彼得大帝時期開始，俄羅斯就開始接納西方文化
before long Russian poets, painters, and scientists were numbered among the world's greatest.
不久之后，俄國詩人，畫家，和科學家，都躋身世界前列
Lenin and most of his cohort were the well educated spawn of middle and upper classes,
列寧和他的大多數伙伴都是中上層階級的子女受過良好的教育
effectively denied a place in public life by institutionalized Tsarist idiocy.
有效抵制了公共生活中制度化的俄國帝制言論
Many of the intelligentsia had once cared deeply about the revolutionary movement:
很多知識分子曾經非常關切革命運動
they believed that the Bolsheviks' commitment to education for all included all forms of education.
他們相信布爾什維克致力于的全民教育包括了所有形式的教育
And indeed, this was one area where Communist deeds did back up Communist words.
確實,在這方面共產主義的確
The literacy rate skyrocketed under the Soviets,
實現了自己的承諾，蘇維埃政權下的識字率飛升
while thousands of people who would never have seen the inside of a lecture hall received a college education.
上千的民眾原本可能都無緣走進講堂如今卻得以接受大學教育
What Soviet college students were allowed to learn, they learned very well.
蘇維埃大學生將允許自己學的內容都學得非常好
Yet overall the Soviet culture, especially under Stalin, became an intellectual desert.
但是整體上的蘇維埃文化，尤其是在斯大林時期，成為了一片知識的沙漠
