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Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.

— Andrei Gromyko Attributed

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speech to the Soviet Communist party central committee, Moscow, March 11, 1985, as reported by The Washington Post (March 17, 1985), p. A1, referring to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. This statement is not found in translations of official materials.

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