The Russian soldier is our friend. He is here to protect us.
-- First sentence in an English textbook
-- seen in Bulgaria (printed in Moscow) (c.a. 1967).
We have gathered here today to pay final respects to our honored dead.
And yet it should be noted in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes
place in the shadow of a new light, the sunrise of a new world, a world
that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish....