The USSR collapsed not for economic reasons, but because the slight lifting of the Iron Curtain revealed a reality that stood in stark contrast to the idea that people were subordinate to the state.

苏联并非出于经济原因才最终崩溃，相反是因为铁幕被稍稍拉开之后，人们看到了一个与想象之中截然相反的事实：那就是西方国家的民众并不是政府的附庸。

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But efforts to re-start the peace process now confront a stark new reality: two mutually hostile Palestinian entities in Hamas-ruled Gaza and the Fatah-led West Bank must now be factored into the process.

但重启和平进程的努力目前却碰到了新的僵持局面：那就是必须将哈马斯领导的加沙和法塔赫领导的西岸这两个互相敌对的巴勒斯坦团体同时纳入到和平进程中 来。

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