It is therefore safe to assume that not only obscure academics and correspondents, but officials in Beijing as well, are now busy studying the history of the Ghulja uprising and of Osman Batur’s guerillas. Come to think of it: whatever happened to the Poles, whom Russia so successfully put down in 1863?
因此可以认定的是，不但那些默默无闻的学者和新闻通讯员，甚至连北京的官员如今都在忙于研究新疆伊宁起义以及奥斯曼·巴图尔游击队的历史。试想一下，1893年被帝俄军队成功镇压的波兰人，如今又是什么样的状况？