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MAN ON P.A.: There were
three great empires...
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that dominated the world both
culturally and militarily...
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Rome, Constantinople,
and Russia.
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All three have fallen.
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Only one can be restored...
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and only one man
can restore it...
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Ivan Petrovich Tretiak!
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[Cheering]
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TRETIAK: Friends...
countrymen...
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Russians!
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TRETIAK: You people
here in this room...
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are the cream of Russia...
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and the whole nation
is listening with us.
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But why do you all
listen to me rave?
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Set aside my oil company...
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forget about
my best-selling book...
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and all I am is a lunatic...
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haunted by the fantasy
of an empire...
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that reclaims her former might,
her former size.
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[Applause]
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All I am is a poet
spinning rhymes of a Russia...
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not cut off at the knees,
but armed to the teeth.