"Repentance"

[Kenneth Brostrom]

Thank you for this particular variant.  This saying has clearly been
the basis for a great deal of improvisation, often quite witty.  I
think this is the only sinister example I've encountered.

>Stalin apparently said:
>"Skromnost' ukrashaet bol'shevika"
>in his speech to kolkhoz shock-workers, 19 Feb 1933.
>(Dushenko, Slovar' Sovr. Tsitat, 1997, page 340.)
>Andrew Jameson
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