Only then we will know if the trade-off at least made sense, even if for many it was unacceptable: authentic social justice and progress in exchange for authoritarian rule, international ostracism, and a cultural desert.
即便对很多人来讲根本无法接受，但只有到那时我们才知道这种交易是否起过作用：牺牲真正的社会正义和进步，得到的却是独裁统治、国际排斥和文化沙漠。