Quote #7

Don't you worry about the foreign minister. The foreign minister will do anything I tell him. If I say: 'take down your trousers and sit with your bare bottom on a block of ice', Gromyko will do so until further notice.

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  3. Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
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