22.10.2024
Alexander Palladin
The First Soviet Interns at Columbia University
It is generally accepted that the first Soviet citizens to undergo internships at Columbia University were the future architect of perestroika, Gorbachev’s closest (after his wife) adviser, Alexander Yakovlev, Oleg Kalugin, who later became a KGB general, and two others whose names have sunk into oblivion. As part of the thawing of relations between the […]
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