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To the Russians, Gorbachev was responsible for the economic chaos of the late 1980s
對于俄國人而言，戈爾巴喬夫要對20世紀80年代末期的經(jīng)濟混亂負責
and his bungling foreign policy they believe lost the network of East European states for which so many Russains had fought and died.
俄國人也認為戈爾巴喬夫差勁的外交政策使得東歐附庸國關(guān)系網(wǎng)絡盡失，而這是這么多俄羅斯人浴血奮戰(zhàn)才得以建立起來的
At present, Gorbachev is not only alive but also following international developments very closely.
現(xiàn)在，戈爾巴喬夫不僅還活著而且還在密切關(guān)注國際動態(tài)
To judge from what he has to say about the world today in 2007, he's not too happy with anybody these days.
從他2007年對當今世界動態(tài)所說的話看來，近來他對什么人都不覺得滿意
4. The dominoes fall
第四，多米諾效應
One must not underestimate the role of the average man or woman in the street.
我們決不能低估了街頭普通男女所扮演的角色
Although the communists tried to remake human nature in their own image, I think that the human spirit proved too resilient.
盡管共產(chǎn)黨試圖以自己的形象來重塑人性，我認為人類精神適應性還是太強了
Perhaps none of the millions of acts of human resistance, great or small, in itself was enough to turn the tide.
可能上百萬的人類抵抗，不管是大是小，本身都不足以逆轉(zhuǎn)潮流
For example — although 40,000 Hungarians lost their lives in the 1956 revolution, freedom did not come for another 33 years.
例如——盡管1956年有4萬匈牙利人在革命中犧牲在此后的33年里，自由還是沒有到來
When the Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, instead of fighting like the Hungarians had done,
當1968年華沙公約軍隊入侵捷克斯洛伐克的時候，捷克人沒有像匈牙利人那樣奮起反抗
individual Czechs protested the occupation by dousing themselves in gasoline and setting themselves afire.
而是通過向自己身上潑汽油，然后自焚來表達對占領(lǐng)的抗議
The Communist government of Poland declared martial law in 1981 to put the Solidarity movement out of business,
波蘭共產(chǎn)主義政府在1981年宣布戒嚴令來壓制團結(jié)工會運動
but Solidarity leader Lech Walesa eventually wound up as the President of a democratic Poland.
但是團結(jié)工會運動的領(lǐng)導人萊赫·瓦文薩最終還是成為了民主波蘭的總統(tǒng)
As I have mentioned earlier, the client states to be the dominoes which wound up toppling the entire rotten edifice of the Soviet Union...
正如我之前講過的，附庸國就像多米諾一樣最終會推倒整個腐朽的蘇聯(lián)
yet another possible downfall of empire.
這也是蘇聯(lián)解體的另外一個可能的原因
