“Mir i druzhba” — “peace and friendship” — was often the first toast in any formal meeting between Soviet officials and foreigners, with the subtext that we, the foreigners, were the warmongers. A colleague of mine dubbed these toastmasters the “peace and friendship hard-liners,” and the underground humor mill suggested that many Soviets agreed. “Mir” also means “world” in Russia, which made for a neat anti-slogan: “We want mir! The whole mir!”