Word: spasibo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shaking hands warmly with the President, the ebullient Brezhnev led him by the arm to a position in front of the honor guard and coached him to say "Spasibo, soldat [Thank you, soldiers]." For Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Brezhnev had a bouquet of roses. Nixon spent five minutes shaking hands with a smiling crowd of about 500, most of them bused in from nearby offices, and then rode with Brezhnev in a black Zil limousine the 15 miles to the Kremlin. The route, mainly along Lenin Avenue, was decked with American flags, as it had been in 1972, but crowds were...