However, it must be pointed out unequivocally that many of the problems in the world today predate the cold war; they predate the onset of communism in Russia in 1917.
不过，我们必须正确地指出，现今世界许多问题早在冷战之前就已出现；它们早在俄国人1917年开始掌握共产主义政权之前就已出现。