Many people now view such efforts to "renew" the socialist system - to make it actually work for the people - as having been doomed from the start. But these earlier reforms were in fact more difficult to undertake than the ones that I launched in the 1980's and 1990's.
在如今的很多人看来，这种"更新"社会主义制度，使之能为人们所接受的努力从一开始就注定不会成功。但这些早期的改革实际上比我20世纪八九十年代的改革难度更大。就任总统期间，我们必须培养一种民主的氛围，但只有在恐惧不再统治一切的时候，这种努力才有可能成功。