MOSCOW – During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and, in a milder way, the United States imposed external limits on the activities of states and societies, causing longstanding conflicts among smaller countries to be “frozen.” Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in the 1990’s, those conflicts began to “unfreeze.”
莫斯科—冷战期间，苏联和美国（手段相对较温和）为国家和社会的活动设定了外部限制，这让小国之间的长期冲突都“冻结”起来了。随着20世纪90年代苏联的解体，这些冲突开始“解冻”。