Leo Voronin: "Braces, you say?"

“It is symptomatic that we already went through this in the relatively recent past. Soviet party functionaries who had made mistakes were sent as ambassadors to some not very prestigious, but nevertheless capitalist country. This practice, by the way, was willingly used by the “professional party member” Yeltsin. At one time, Mikhail Zadornov joked about this: “He lived so well in the Union that for him Austria was like Siberia for the Decembrists” (I quote from memory).

Times are different these days. You can go to the cherished West without any Foreign Ministry. Something else is important. Let's return to the symptom. This is a very important symptom."