西方应该毫无保留地支持苏联使其成功吗？或者西方的经济支援是否应视苏联在国内外政治行为来决定？西方政客们权衡他们的选择，可是这项选择是错误的。西方对苏联的制衡并不存在。 Should the West root unreservedly for Soviet success? Or should Western economic support turn on Soviet political behavior at home and abroad? Western politicians weight the choice, but it's a false choice: the leverage doesn't exist.
苏联和美国在发射载人宇宙飞船去火星的研制方面，可以说是并驾齐驱，不相上下。 Russia and the United States are neck and neck in the race to send a manned spacecraft to Mars.
美国和前苏联都是条约的签署国。 The US and the former Soviet Union were co-signatories of/to the treaty.
苏联由十五个加盟共和国组成。 Fifteen separate republics comprised the Soviet Union.
