转折点：原子弹与冷战（2024）

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War S01E06

Part 8 March 18, 2024, 3:47 p.m.

尼古拉·齐奥塞斯库被毫不客气地从一辆装甲车上拖出...
Ceaușescu is unceremoniously bundled from an armored car,
（1989年12月25日）
...这是他被执行死刑前最后一趟行程
making his last journey before his execution.
他70岁的妻子埃琳娜·齐奥塞斯库也出现了
His 70-year-old wife, Elena Ceaușescu, is also seen.
她面临着与她丈夫相似的指控
She faced similar charges to her husband,
据说也遭遇了同样的命运
and is said to have met the same fate.
这对夫妇看起来过分轻松了
The couple appeared remarkably relaxed,
毕竟他们被共同指控犯有种族灭绝罪
considering the fact they'd been jointly charged with genocide.
米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫获得了1990年的诺♥贝♥尔♥和♥平♥奖♥
Mikhail Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.
今天苏联♥总♥统奖上有名...
The Soviet president was cited today
（1990年10月15日）
...表彰其在和平进程中的领导作用
for his leading role in the peace process,
以及为苏联社会带来的开放
and the openness he's brought to Soviet Society.
这表明我们走在正确的道路上我们所做的改变是正确的
It shows that we're on the right path, and the changes we are making are right.
试图理解戈尔巴乔夫的长♥期♥博弈总是很有趣的
It was always interesting to try to understand Gorbachev's long game.
我有几次跟他在一起
I got to spend some time with him on a couple of occasions,
我意识到他是一个真正的信徒
and it occurred to me that he was a kind of true believer.
他真的相信要去消除谎言
He actually believed, if you were to eliminate the lies,
那就是公开化的意义
that's what glasnost was about.
要去讲述过去的真♥相♥
Telling the truth about the past.
只要消除镇♥压♥
If you were to eliminate the repression,
让人们可以重获自♥由♥
and people could feel free again,
只要允许人们过上好日子
if you were to allow people to have a good life,
那么他们就会想要成为改革后的苏联的一部分
then they would want to be a part of a reformed Soviet Union.
但1989年后期望值提高了
But after 1989, expectations were raised.
爱沙尼亚和拉脱维亚以及立陶宛的人们想着
So, people in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, they thought,
"为什么不争取完全独♥立♥呢? "
"Why not go for full independence?"
到1991年夏天
By the summer of 1991,
苏联出现了独♥立♥运动
there are independence movements all over the Soviet Union,
戈尔巴乔夫岌岌可危
and Gorbachev is hanging on by a thread.
他没有意识到的是苏联这座大厦
What he didn't realize was that the Soviet Union was an edifice
地基并不牢固
that was built on very unstable ground.
他似乎一直没有明白事态已经发展到什么程度了
He never seemed to understand the degree to which the whole thing was unraveling.
我们一群人会规划一些情景
A group of us were tasked to do some scenario planning,
其中之一就是可能会发生针对戈尔巴乔夫的政♥变♥
and one was that there might be a coup against Gorbachev.
我们要警告他吗?
Would we warn him?
在什么情况下我们要警告他?
Under what circumstances would we warn him?
再次重复我们的头条新闻
Repeating once again our top story,
苏联♥总♥统米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫被赶下台
Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has been removed from power.
戈尔巴乔夫坚信自己会被暗♥杀♥
Gorbachev is convinced that he's gonna be killed,
而且他似乎不太可能从中脱身了
and it seemed unlikely he was gonna get out of this.
发生了一场违反宪法的政♥变♥
An anti-constitutional coup has taken place.
我被捕了
I am under arrest.