Once the communist party, that is, Joseph Stalin, had come to its conclusion, it could not be debated.
一旦共产党,其实就是斯大林有了什么结论,那就是不容置疑的
So when Stalin announced that the first five-year plan announced in 1928 actually had to be completed in 4 years,
因此斯大林1928年宣布五年计划实际要在四年内完成
it was officially declared complete in 1932, a second five-year plan started.
官方就宣布要在1932年完成,然后马上开始第二个五年计划
In the middle 1930's, the communist party line dictated that Nazi Germany and fascist Italy were
20世纪30年代中期,共产党政治路线认为纳粹德国和法西斯意大利
the two pillars of the evil empire and must be fought accordingly.
是邪恶势力的两大支柱,所以必须要和他们斗争到底
Indeed, the USSR fought the Spanish Civil War of 1936 through 1939 as a proxy war against Germany and Italy.
因此,苏联在1936年到1939年参与西班牙内战时扮演者代理人的角色来和德国,意大利作战
But when on the eve of the Second World War,
但是在二战前夕
Stalin thought, "Well, maybe I will sign a treaty with Nazi Germany", the communist party line was changed.
斯大林想,或许我应该和纳粹德国签个协议,因此共产党的政党路线就改变了
Now Germany and Italy were wonderful and all the capitalist western powers were bad.
苏联和德国和意大利都相安无事,所有其他西方资本主义势力都是敌人
Communist parties around the world, all of which took their marching orders of the Communist International, or Comintern, in Moscow,
全世界的共产党都接到了来自莫斯科的共产国际的开拔令
set a world record for the most crow eaten overnight.
也创造了在一夜间被迫认错的记录
Realizing, however, what happened to people who Stalin got mad at, even foreign communists were terrified of crossing Stalin's party lines.
在意识到了得罪斯大林的人的下场之后,即便是国外的共产党人都不敢跨越斯大林的政党路线了