Word: spasibo
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...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...
...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...