As early as the middle 1920s, the Soviets were trying to meddle in China with awful results.
早在20世纪20年代早期,苏联人还试着干涉中国,导致了糟糕的结果
Strangely the Soviet brain-trust in China was just as keen about winning over the nationalist commander,
奇怪的是苏联在中国的分支只是热衷于
Chiang Kai-shek, as they were in supporting the devoted communist leader Mao Zedong.
拥护忠诚的共产主义领袖毛泽东打败国民党指挥官蒋介石
The same thing happened during the Spanish civil war in which the forces of Francisco Franco,
同样的事也发生在西班牙内战中,弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥的军队同一群由社会主义者
who is still dead, fought a loose republic grouping of socialists, anarchists and communists.
无政府主义者和共产主义者组成的松散共和国小组作战,而他自己最后还是难逃一死
The Soviets were more interested in wiping out Spanish Trotskyists than in fighting Spanish fascists.
苏联更感兴趣的是平息西班牙的托洛茨基派而非同西班牙法西斯战斗
When Stalin signed the famous 1939 non-aggression pact the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact with Germany,
当斯大林同德国签定了著名的1939年苏德互不侵犯条约,即《里宾特洛甫-莫洛托夫条约》时
he even handed over to Hitler many German communists who had fled for safety to the arms of the USSR.
他甚至将许多由于安全目的逃往苏联的德国共产党人交给了希特勒