Indeed, Yeltsin was fearless, and sought not his personal survival, but the survival of the democratic idea that he introduced to Russia. Yet that idea is now under threat because of the successor we chose.
实际上，叶利钦是无所畏惧的，他追求的不是个人安全与否，而是自己引入俄国的民主思想能否最终实现。但我们所选择的继任者正在对这种民主思想构成威胁。