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This too was an unwise investment of scarce resources.
这些在于资源有限的情况下都是不明智的投资
The revolutionaries, that the Soviets supported, were only moderately successful and the successful revolutionaries turned ungrateful.
那些苏联支持的革命者只是马马虎虎地成功了，而这些成功的革命者却并不领情
The only solid Soviet supporter gained during these times was Cuba,
这段时间内苏联唯一赢得的坚定的支持者是古巴
and even the Soviets didn't support Castro's 1959 revolution so much as they bought Castro's support after the revolution succeeded.
甚至苏联对于卡斯特罗1959年革命的支持都不及卡斯特罗革命成功后，苏联为赢得他们的支持花费多
Given the West's solid support of Israel the Soviets hoped to buy friends in the Arab world,
考虑到西方对于以色列的坚定支持，苏联希望从阿拉伯世界收买一些朋友
they sold mass quantities of weapons to the Arab nations at bargain prices,
他们将大量的武器以低价出售给阿拉伯国家
and they even built the magnificent Aswan High Dam over the Nile in Modern Egypt.
甚至在现代埃及建成了横跨尼罗河雄伟的阿斯旺大坝
All they got for their troubles was kicked out.
这些国家所有的麻烦都被扫除了
But every time the Israelis and Arabs fought, yes another set of east west proxy wars, the Arabs took a licking.
但是每次以色列和阿拉伯开战时，是的，另一种东西代理人战争的体现，阿拉伯人总会遭受挫折
Worse the Arabs blamed the Soviet weapons and their Soviet advisors rather than blaming themselves,
更糟糕的是，阿拉伯人责备苏联的武器以及其苏联顾问而从不责备自己
all in all the Soviet foreign policy under Khrushchev was a disaster.
总之，苏联在赫鲁晓夫时代的对外政策搞得一团糟
Khrushchev's downfall came for both internal and external reasons.
赫鲁晓夫的垮台处于内部和外部的双重原因
The Soviet people quit believing his promises of an impending communist paradise sometime around 1980.
苏联人民不再相信他对于即将在1980年左右到来的共产主义天堂的承诺
