[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In the 1970’s in East Germany the saying was, “Optimists study English, realists study Russian, pessimists study Chinese.”

[Clutch Martin]

“In the 1970’s in East Germany the saying was, “Optimists study English, realists study Russian, pessimists study Chinese.””

Around that same period there was a saying out of the USSR that caught my ear... “The government (Soviet) pretends to pay us, and we pretend to work!”