We regard this not only as the fulfilment of our country's cultural strivings for independent existence, but also as a guarantee of that existence, since a Russia divested of her conquests will be sufficiently weakened that she will cease to be a formidable and dangerous neighbor.
我们这么做不仅仅是为了取得让我们国家的文化独立存在的成果，也是为了保持这个成果，因为俄罗斯失去了她所征服过的地带，实力就会被削弱，她就不再是可怕而危险的邻居了。