Word: bogu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proclaiming in white letters on red backgrounds, SLAVA TRUDU! (Glory to Labor!) and SLAVA KPSS! (Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union!). But pedestrians and motorists ignore the slogans. Virtually no one ever uses the word slava in everyday conversation, except in the very common phrase, Slava Bogu, which means "Glory be to God." Yet the state goes right on repainting the billboards every year...
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