re: #218 Varek Raith

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The backstory behind the joke in case some were wondering is that Reagan (supposedly) said that Russian has no word for “freedom”. Because the language of Dostoyevskiy and Gogol would be missing key literary and philosophical concepts, I suppose.

BTW, I did a quick Google search and can’t find a direct reference of Reagan saying this, just Hitchens saying that Reagan said it.