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"America: What a country!"
American life and custom through the eyes of a new immigrant. For instance:
"I go to New York and I saw a big sign saying 'America Loves Smirnoff' and I said to myself, what a country!"
Reading employment announcements of "Part-Time Woman Wanted": "What a country! Even transvestites can get work."
Upon being offered work as a barman on a "graveyard shift", he remarks, 'A bar in a cemetery! What a country! Last call? During Happy Hour the place must be dead.'[2]
At the grocery store: "Powdered milk, powdered eggs, baby powder ... what a country!"
At the grocery store after finding "New Freedom" Maxi Pads: "Freedom in a box! What a country!"
"The first time I went to a restaurant, they asked me 'How many in your party?' and I said 'Six hundred million'."
"In every country, they make fun of city. In U.S. you make fun of Cleveland. In Russia, we make fun of Cleveland"
Bizarre comparisons between the U.S. and Russia:
"We have no gay people in Russia there are homosexuals but they are not allowed to be gay about it. The punishment is seven years locked in prison with other men and there is a three-year waiting list for that."[3]
"I like parades without missiles in them. I'll take Bullwinkle to a tank anyday'"
He once told Johnny Carson, "I enjoy being in America: it's fun, you know, because you have, you have so many things we never had in Russia like warning shots."
When Carson asked if comedians in the Soviet Union can crack jokes about their leaders, Smirnoff replied, "Of course -- once."