Corrected entry: The Russian ambassador's Russian is awful. The accent is terrible, many words are either pronounced wrong or just incomprehensible (I am Russian), and pronunciation of some phrases is stereotypically American - such as "dos visdanya" or "niet".
Grigory the Wanderer
24th Feb 2005
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
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Correction: He's not the Russian ambassador - he's the Soviet Ambassador, and the distinction is an important one. It also explains his poor spoken Russian. He could be a native of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, The Ukraine, or Uzbekistan, all of which were part of the Soviet Union in the sixties and all of which had their own languages (and many, many regional dialects, too.) So, Russian could be a second language to him and he might not speak it well. (As ambassador to the U.S.A., his spoken English would be far more important anyway.)