Word: spasibo
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...with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Bald and effusive, Russia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book entitled Plant Diseases. Benson entertained the Russians with a lunch of new foods developed by U.S. scientists (including powdered orange juice and dehydro-frozen peas) and delivered a warm little speech: "Permit...
...wish to point out an additional reason for banning the word "Spasibo" in the Soviet Union [TIME, July 3]. Although used as "Thank you" ... it really means "God save (keep) you" (compounded from spasat, to save, and Bog, God). How could a self-respecting Communist use such a word...
Visitors to Russia who insist on saying "Spasibo" ("Thank you") for services rendered reveal themselves to knowing Russians not only as foreigners but as class enemies. The good Soviet citizen avoids such courtesies. In Russia's October Revolution and the bloody civil war, the Bolsheviks learned that one way to spot an enemy was to listen to his speech. A cultivated diction and politeness were the caste marks of the bourgeoisie; polite speech, like the bourgeoisie, soon went out of fashion...
Last week millions of copies of Stalin on Marxism and Philology were pouring from the Moscow presses for the enlightenment of muddled comrades. It was an occasion when it would undoubtedly be permissible to say "Spasibo...
...Secretary of State James C. Dunn, looked cheerful although he had not been in favor of a hard peace for Germany. U.S. delegates who knew no Russian learned two words from daily dealing with the Russian Security guards who stood by every Potsdam door. The words: pozhaluista (please) and spasibo (thank...