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Re: 13 years since the August putsch (USSR collapse)
--- Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ^^^^^
> CB:Gromyko does not seem to have been accurate when
> he said this man has a
> big smile, but steel teeth.
>
Gorbachev's provincial dialect and verbal gaffs are
the stuff of legend, especially among snooty
Muscovites. For instance, he will say "Ya naPIsal," "I
urinated," instead of "Ya napiSAL," "I wrote."
Gorby is the son of a peasant family. His father was a
kulak, I think.
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