December marks twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Soviet leader. His reforms influenced the Soviet Union’s fall.
今年十二月标志着苏联解体二十周年。戈尔巴乔夫是最后一位苏联领导人,他的改革影响了苏联的陨落。
In nineteen eighty-five, Mr. Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was fifty-four years old - the youngest member of the ruling committee, called the Politburo, that voted him into power.
在1985年,戈尔巴乔夫先生当选为苏共总书记,当时他年仅54岁,是执政委员会最年轻的成员,这一执政委员会投票让他上台执政.