Stalin was the unquestioned ruler oftheSovietUnion from the late 1920s until his death in 1953.
斯大林是从20年代末到1953年他去世苏维埃政权无可争议的领导者。
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Gorbachev failed to keep the component parts oftheSovietUnion together.
戈尔巴乔夫没能使苏联各组成部分保持在一起。
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Some cultures are too adept at lining up: a citizen ofthe former SovietUnion would join a queue just so he could get to the head of that queue and see what everyone was queuing for.