Once a year, the ruling Soviet politburo ascended Lenin’s mausoleum on Red Square for a ceremony that marked the November 7 1917 Bolshevik revolution’s anniversary. Revolution Day was a public holiday, ostensibly a festive occasion. But as they peered at the tanks, guns, missiles and soldiers below, the Soviet leaders were unaccountably stony and unsmiling.
蘇聯時期,政治局高層每年都會登上紅場(Red Square)的列寧(Lenin)墓,紀念1917年11月7日布爾什維克革命的週年紀念日。那時,革命日是一個公衆假日,理論上是一個節日。但是,當蘇聯領導人們凝視著下面的坦克、大砲、飛彈以及士兵時,他們的神情都莫名地嚴肅、沒有笑容。
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