Twenty-five years ago this week I went to Moscow for Christmas. What was intended as a short visit to my family, who were living there at the time, ended up as a memorable trip in which I flew into the Soviet Union and a few days later flew out of the Russian Federation. In the intervening time an empire — the first avowedly communist state on earth, a superpower in a bipolar world of cold war antagonism — had expired.
25年前的這一週，我到莫斯科過耶誕節。這原本是一次探望家人的短期旅程（他們當時住在莫斯科），結果卻成了一次難忘之旅，我來到蘇聯，而在我幾天後離開時，這個國家已變成了俄羅斯聯邦。其間，一個帝國（世界上第一個誓言實現共產主義的國家，冷戰時期兩極世界中的一個超級大國）滅亡。
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