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Any stirrings of true democracy were crushed ruthlessly, as in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968).
任何煽動民主的行為都遭到無情的鎮壓，如1953年東德、1956年匈牙利和1968年捷克斯洛伐克
The Western Allies were rightly troubled by the expansion of Communism and the suppression of civil rights in the client states.
西方同盟國也對共產主義擴張和附庸國公民權受到鎮壓深感困擾
In fact they were lucky the Truman Doctrine successfully kept Turkey, Greece, and Finland out of the Communist bloc.
事實上，很幸運地，杜魯門主義使得土耳其，希臘和芬蘭不在共產黨陣營
Instead of trying to wipe out Communism, the West practiced "containment:"
西方陣營并沒試著清除共產主義，而是實行了遏制政策
trying to keep Communism from expanding beyond the Iron Curtain and later, from beyond Red China.
試著讓共產主義不擴展到鐵幕之外，不延伸出中國
The US and its Western allies treated the conquered nations quite differently.
美國及其西方盟國對待戰敗國的方式相當不同
They hoped to create friendly prosperous democratic regimes in both Japan and Germany.
它們希望在日本和德國建立起友好，繁榮，民主的政權
And in fact they did.
事實上他們也做到了
Unlike the Soviets, the western bloc did not force their desired changes down the conquered nations' throats.
不同于蘇聯，西方盟國沒有暴力迫使戰敗國作出應有的改變
In Japan, the United States employed the ancient Roman tactic of the proconsulship.
在日本，美國運用的是古羅馬的總督制
The Soviets joined the war against Japan in summer 1945, wanting to grab some of the Far Eastern territory while they still could.
1945年夏，蘇聯加入抗擊日本的戰爭，想要趁機瓜分一些遠東地區
