不知应该说是有幸还是不幸,我于1991年8月中旬访问前苏联的时候,赶上了在莫斯科发生的那场震惊世界的“8·19”事变。苏联,这个被称为世界上“第二超级大国”的巨人轰然倒地,飘扬了七十多年的社会主义旗帜悄然落下,换上了昔日俄罗斯的三色国旗。这是一场在混乱中发生的自我否定,然而它又是那样地快捷和轻易,似乎没有遇到很大的阻力,甚至都没有让人看个清楚仔细。 I wonder if it should be said that I was fortunate or unfortunate. When I visited the former Soviet Union in mid-August 1991, I caught up with the August 19 incident in Moscow that shocked the world. The Soviet Union, known as the “second superpower” in the world, fell to the ground and flew for more than seventy years the banner of socialism that quietly dropped and replaced the tri-color national flag of the former Russia. It was a self-denial that took place in the chaos, yet it was so quick and easy as it did not seem to encounter great resistance, without even noticing it clearly.