the cult of personality of Stalin."

像另一个沙皇一样的独裁者"
When you think of Mao's China, and there the cult of personality,

想想毛泽东时代的中国人对毛的个人崇拜
if anything,was even more than that

如果苏联也有红宝书以及类似的东西
with the Little Red Book and all of this business.

那么他们的个人崇拜要远远超过这些
To repeat the obvious,

再次重复一下这显而易见的事实
the Soviet Union was the dictatorship of the Communist Party,

苏联是共产党一党专政的
and the dictatorship of the Communist Party

同时共产党专政
was the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin,

也意味着约瑟夫·斯大林的独裁
and the paranoia of Joseph Stalin.

以及他的多疑
Now,ironically,Stalin, as I'm sure you know,

令人讽刺的是我想你们知道
was not Russian,

斯大林并不是俄罗斯人
even though the Soviet Empire, and it was that,

尽管苏联帝国