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Brezhnev was already likely senile when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979.
勃列日涅夫在苏联军队于1979年12月侵入阿富汗时确实看着老迈了
His aged successors Andropov and Chernenko were unable to get the troops out of Afghanistan
但他的上岁数的继任者安德罗波夫和契尔年科却无力使苏军撤出阿富汗
or do anything to save the fast declining soviet state
或者采取其他措施来挽救快速垮下的苏联
Segment 25d Fall of the Soviet Empire
25段第四部分，帝国的瓦解
Gives us the end of the USSR as we know it. It fell apart.
让我们看到了我们所知道的苏维埃社会主义联盟的结束。苏联解体
The republics ultimately succeeded
附庸国最后都退出了

Using a right granted by them by none other than Vladimir Illych Lenin himself when the Soviet Union was founded.
弗拉基米尔·列宁在创办苏联的时候就赋予了它们退出的权利
Isn't it ironic?
这一点不带有讽刺性么？
In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev inherited a regime with a stagnant economy, massive and expensive military commitments,
在1985年戈尔巴乔夫接过了这样一个政权：经济停滞、军事委托众多并且昂贵
a corrupt, top-heavy bureaucracy and a populous that no longer cared about anything.
腐败而头重脚轻的官僚体系和对一切都已漠不关心的人民
By introducing Perestroika or restructuring to the economy and Glasnost or openness to political life,
通过在经济方面引进改革措施以及实现开放的政治生活
Gorbachev hoped to jolt the Soviet Union back on the path towards communism and it didn't work.
戈尔巴乔夫希望将苏联拉到共产主义的正轨上，但他并未成功

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此课程介绍了帝国冲突，美苏争霸，冷战。

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