The NATO alliance has grown from 12 to 29 with more former Soviet bloc countries trying to join.

由于越来越多前苏联国家的加入，北约同盟的成员国数量从12个增加至29个。

Cold War, which basically means the metaphorical divide between the Soviet bloc and the West.

冷战， 基本上意味着苏联集团和西方之间的隐喻鸿沟。

After World War II, Bulgaria ended up in the Soviet Bloc.

第二次世界大战后， 保加利亚最终加入了苏联集团。

With the exception of Turkey, all of the were either Soviet states or part of the Soviet bloc, and with Georgia and Ukraine aspiring to move closer to NATO, Russia is increasingly surrounded by treaty allies.

除了土耳其外, 所有国家都是苏联国家或曾属于苏联集团, 而随着格鲁吉亚及乌克兰希望向北约靠拢, 俄罗斯正越来越被条约国盟友包围。

To justify this intervention, Leonid Brezhnev invented the Brezhnev Doctrine, which reserved for quote and unquote all socialist countries the right to intervene when or where a socialist country was being lured out of the Soviet bloc.

为了给这次干预正名，勃列日涅夫发明了勃列日涅夫学说，提出保留所有社会主义国家在某个社会主义国家被引诱出苏联集团时进行干预的权力。