>>Obviously, I don't remember Stalin times :), just what my parents told me. I grew up in Brezhnev era and double-speak was the norm of the day. Do you remember that phrase? "If someone talks what he thinks, then he does not think".
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>Can you spell it in Russian? Somehow I can not put it back in Russian words, may be I didn't hear it exactly.
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Yesli kto to govorit to chto on dumayet, to dumayet li on?