Word: spasibo
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...Roosevelt had become a tired and aging man. They honored him as no foreigner had been honored before - with black-bordered flags above the Kremlin, with memorial broadcasts and exhibits. Varvara Kruichkov, the war-widowed chambermaid who had dusted the President's apartment at Yalta, remembered his friendly "Spasibo - Thank you," and paid the tribute of all the proletariat: "He was a great man." In Moscow's streets people said to Americans: "Kak Zhalko! -What a pity!" And they asked: "Who is this Truman...