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Gorbachev tried in vain to persuade Yeltsin and the other Soviet republic presidents to keep the old Soviet infrastructure together.
戈爾巴喬夫徒勞地想要說服葉利欽和其他蘇維埃共和國總統將舊蘇維埃的基礎設施維持在一起
The Muslim republics of Central Asia in particular wanted to stay in the Soviet Union.
中亞的穆斯林共和國尤其希望待在蘇聯里
The Communists had forced these republics for decades to grow nothing but cotton,
數十年來，共產主義者一直在迫使這些共和國僅僅種植棉花
and these republics knew they were economically unprepared for independence.
這些共和國知道自己在經濟上還沒有做好獨立的準備
Even those republics which couldn't wait to get out of the Soviet Union were far less prepared for independence than they believed.
即使是那些迫不及待要脫離蘇聯的共和國也并沒有像自己所認為的那樣準備好迎接獨立
However haplessly it was put together it was, however poorly it worked, the Soviet Union could not just vanish into thin air without serious consequences.
不管蘇聯的建立是多么的不幸，不管蘇聯的運行是多么的糟糕，蘇聯不能就這樣憑空消失，不造成任何嚴重后果
Still, on December 8, 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was officially replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1991年12月8日，蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟正式成為獨立國家聯合體
Ironically, the breakaway Soviet republics were exercising a right that Vladimir Lenin (of all people) had insisted upon when the Soviet Union was formed.
諷刺的是，解體之后的蘇維埃共和國反倒行使了弗拉基米爾·列寧在成立蘇聯之時堅持過的權利
On Christmas Day 1991, the hammer and sickle flag was taken down from over Kremlin and replaced with the Russian Federation's tricolor.
在1991年的圣誕節，克林姆林宮的錘子鐮刀旗被撤下，換成了俄羅斯聯邦的三色旗
The Soviet Union, once thought to be immortal, had lasted a mere seventy-four years.
曾經被認為是永恒的蘇聯，前后不過持續了74年
