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VOA慢速英语:20 Years After the Soviet Union, Renewed Calls for Political Reform

2011-12-31来源:VOA
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
这里是美国之音慢速英语时事新闻节目。

December marks twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Soviet leader. His reforms influenced the Soviet Union’s fall.
今年十二月标志着苏联解体二十周年。戈尔巴乔夫是最后一位苏联领导人,他的改革影响了苏联的陨落。

In nineteen eighty-five, Mr. Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was fifty-four years old - the youngest member of the ruling committee, called the Politburo, that voted him into power.
在1985年,戈尔巴乔夫先生当选为苏共总书记,当时他年仅54岁,是执政委员会最年轻的成员,这一执政委员会投票让他上台执政.

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