Trust, but verify as a signature phrase by Reagan, who subsequently used it frequently when discussing U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. Using proverbs that the Russians could relate to may have helped relations between the two leaders. After Reagan used the phrase to emphasize "the extensive verification procedures that would enable both sides to monitor compliance with the treaty", at the signing of the INF Treaty, on 8 December 1987, his counterpart General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev responded, "You repeat that at every meeting," to which Reagan answered, "I like it." While Reagan quoted Russian proverbs, Mr. Gorbachev quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson, who
State quality mark of the USSR of the Soviet Union Russian government introduced its own sign for certification of quality known as Rostest Mark (or R Mark) The sign was a pentagonal shield with a rotated letter K (from Russian word "Kachestvo" – quality) stylized as scales below the Cyrillic abbreviation СССР, "SSSR" (USSR) State quality mark of the USSR The State quality mark of the USSR (, translit. Gosudarstvennyi znak kachestva SSSR) was the official Soviet mark for the certification of quality established in 1967. It was used to mark consumer, production, and technical goods to certify that they met quality standards and, in general,