
“The Match of Amateur Night Hockey League on the Rink on Red Square ended ... with a score of 8: 5 in favor of the team, for which the Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke, more than half of the goals from the winners was abandoned by the head of state ... Together with him in red uniform, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu and the legends of the domestic hockey played ... The Governor of the Tula region of the Tula region of the Tula region Dyumin, businessmen Gennady Timchenko, Vladimir Potanin and Roman Rotenberg, musician Igor Butman ... and others. ”
“And now the story of the Oka Ivanovich himself [Gorodovikova, the Red Cavalry Commander]:“ Calls Semyon Mikhailovich [Budenny] to the Kremlin Comrade Stalin. There he has a harmonist, he tells him to play, and he says to us: "Dance." Well, we began to dance. They danced, danced, tired, stopped dancing. Comrade Stalin says: "Still dance." Finally, he allowed me to stop. He says: “Well, this is what I tell you. You are dancers h@@@, but the people are true. ” And after all, as he said correctly: the dancers are, indeed, huh, but people are true. ”
Vladimir Uspensky. Proceedings on non -dummy. Book is fourth. Philology. M.: OGI, 2012. S. 375