Overloaded With the Reset Button (RUSSIA)

I was travelling last week, but even if I'd been on the moon, I would have heard about the Clinton-Lavrov peregruzka-perezagruzka reset button debacle.

The blogosphere was abuzz. American bloggers went into an orgy of self-flagellation: We're stupid, have no Russian translators and don't know that Russia has a different alphabet. Russian bloggers were divided. Some thought that the Americans were stupid -- natch -- and many proposed different words, but a few thought that перегрузка was an acceptable translation of "reset." Russian conspiracy nuts were out in full force. They said it was a secret code. After перегрузка (overloading) of nuclear Armageddon -- symbolized by the red button -- there would be перезагрузка (reloading) of life. The button was an invitation for Russians to join Americans in the post-nuclear afterlife.

You can't make this stuff up. So what should have been on that dumb button?

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