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Even though the elections were still rigged in favor of the Communists,
盡管選舉仍然被暗中操作偏向共產黨
they also brought even more serious reformers politicians into power, regionally and nationally.
但還是讓更多嚴肅的改革政治家得到了地方和國家上的權力，
Yeltsin, now estranged from Gorbachev, won himself a seat in the new Congress of People's Deputies and started playing his own game for power.
葉利欽，當時已經和戈爾巴喬夫疏遠了，在人民代表大會中贏得了一個席位，開始了自己的權力游戲
Gorbachev's unwillingness to use military force hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
戈爾巴喬夫不愿意使用軍事力量，加速了蘇聯的解體
One of his spokesmen even joked about a "Sinatra doctrine,"
他的一個發言人甚至開玩笑地提出了辛納屈主義
in which the client states of the iron curtain could have whatever government they liked — doing it "their way."
即鐵幕的附庸國可以自行決定自己的內政政策——走自己的路
Hungary was the first client state to go its own way, followed by Czechoslovakia and Poland.
匈牙利是第一個走自己的路的附庸國，隨后是捷克斯洛伐克和波蘭
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the former client states shed their Communist regimes, demands for serious reform grew faster in the Soviet Union.
1989年柏林墻倒塌，前附庸國紛紛擺脫了共產主義政權，蘇聯內部進行嚴肅改革的呼聲更高了
At the same time, non-Russian minority groups throughout the USSR demanded independence, much as Stalin had foreseen nearly 70 years earlier.
與此同時，蘇聯內的非俄羅斯少數群體要求獨立，正如斯大林在70年前就預料到的那樣
The Baltic Republics of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia,
波羅的拉脫維亞共和國、立陶宛和愛沙尼亞
which had been forced into the Soviet Union as a result of Stalin's agreement with Germany, lead the way out of the Soviet Union.
都是由于斯大林與德國達成協議而被迫加入蘇聯的，如今都紛紛退出了蘇聯
