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.
苏联时期,政治局高层每年都会登上红场(Red Square)的列宁(Lenin)墓,纪念1917年11月7日布尔什维克革命的周年纪念日。那时,革命日是一个公众假日,理论上是一个节日。但是,当苏联领导人们凝视着下面的坦克、大炮、导弹以及士兵时,他们的神情都莫名地严肃、没有笑容。
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