On this day in 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union formally established diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations would “forever remain normal and friendly.’‘
We’ll let you determine how that worked out.
Read on at the link to find stories of Cold War diplomacy between US and Soviet diplomats that weren’t so frosty!
posted 10:01 am on Monday, November 16, 2015
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