Ils ont déjà suffisamment souffert sous le joug soviétique et ensuite sous le joug du bloc communiste.
They have suffered enough, first under the Soviet yoke and then from the high price they paid for being forced to become part of the communist bloc.
Il y a trente ans, de grands pays du Sud subissaient la dictature et l'Est survivait sous le joug soviétique.
Thirty years ago, great countries in the South of Europe lived under dictatorship, and Eastern Europe was subsisting under the yoke of the Soviet Union.
Nous qui avons vécu sous le joug soviétique, nous avons connu et subi ce que signifie élaborer des plans quinquennaux à partir de chiffres fantaisistes.
We, who lived under Soviet domination, lived and experienced what it meant to construct five-year plans from gratuitous numbers.