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From: sergei@JERUSALEM.MT.CS.CMU.EDU (Sergei Nirenburg)
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Subject: Re: Beyond Perestroika
Keywords: flame, spelling, Russian
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Date: 4 Apr 89 17:56:46 GMT
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In article <1989Apr3.195354.18038@utpsych.toronto.edu> raymond@psych.toronto.edu (Raymond Shaw) writes:
>Mikey, Mikey.  We can forgive Brezhnev for not speaking Russian well,
>after all, he was Georgian. 

I always thought he was the son of a Bulgarian immigrant. The sound of the
name supports it. He is definitely not Georgian, and his accent was heavily
Ukrainian.

>Nyet Nichevo Radostnyeye Truda.

You omitted the crucial continuation: vo blago otchizny!

>-Raymond Shaw

Sergei Nirenburg

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