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If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.
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Quoted in "MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" - Page 42 - by Michael R. Beschloss - Political Science - 1986

 

Anastas Mikoyan

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