Military superiority and exporting communism.
那就是军事优势和共产主义的对外输出
The arms race with the west already very expensive became even more costly as it expanded to include a space race.
和西方的军备竞赛已经非常昂贵了,再延伸到太空竞赛花费就更加巨大
The soviets bungled foreign policy was also costly and dangerous.
而苏联糟糕的外交政策不仅危险,还很花钱
Cuba in particular was a bad investment.
尤其是古巴,是项很糟的投资
The combination between domestic and international mistakes was enough to sink Khrushchev in 1964.
国内错误加上在国际社会犯下的错误足够在1964年把赫鲁晓夫拉下台
Segment 24b. The iron curtain descends.
24段第二部分,铁幕落下
After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22nd 1941, Stalin realised that victory would require total commitment.
在德国于1941年7月22日进攻苏联后,斯大林意识到胜利要求完全的献身精神
For that reason Stalin learned to quickly present the war as a great patriotic war against the axis minus the third member of the axis; Japan.
因此斯大林很快就学会将战争定义对抗轴心国的伟大的卫国战争轴心国的第三个成员,日本
As Stalin and the communist party now put it, the men and women fighting the war
斯大林和其共产党当时宣布参与到战争中的男男女女
were not so much the builders of a Marxist workers paradise as they were the sons and daughters of mother Russia.
与其说是马克思主义工人天堂的建设者,倒不如说他们是祖国母亲的儿女
The sons and daughters of Dmitry Donskoy and General Suvorov saving mother Russia from yet another western invader.
是德米特里·顿斯科伊的儿女苏沃洛夫将军从另一个西方侵略者手中拯救母亲俄国