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年前的这一周，我到莫斯科过圣诞节。这原本是一次探望家人的短期旅程（他们当时住在莫斯科），结果却成了一次难忘之旅，我来到苏联，而在我几天后离开时，这个国家已变成了俄罗斯联邦。其间，一个帝国（世界上第一个誓言实现共产主义的国家，冷战时期两极世界中的一个超级大国）灭亡。
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