On the recordMay 26, 1988
Let me interject here that at one time Moscow was known as the City of the Forty Forties because there were 1,600 belfries in the churches of the city.
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presidency.ucsb.eduLet me interject here that at one time Moscow was known as the City of the Forty Forties because there were 1,600 belfries in the churches of the city.
Remarks to the Paasikivi Society and the League of Finnish-American Societies in Helsinki, Finland
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