NYT: As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity

[mystery-ak]

As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity

Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s. Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.

By Anton Troianovski

    March 6, 2020, 8:53 a.m. ET

YAROSLAVL, Russia — The mayor of Burlington, Vt., wrote to a Soviet counterpart in a provincial city that he wanted the United States and the Soviet Union to “live together as friends.”

Unbeknown to him, his desire for friendship meshed with the efforts of Soviet officials in Moscow to “reveal American imperialism as the main source of the danger of war.”

That mayor was Bernie Sanders, and the story of his 1988 trip to the Soviet Union has been told before. But many of the details of Mr. Sanders’s Cold War diplomacy before and after that visit — and the Soviet effort to exploit Mr. Sanders’s antiwar agenda for their own propaganda purposes — have largely remained out of sight.

The New York Times examined 89 pages of letters, telegrams and internal Soviet government documents revealing in far greater detail the extent of Mr. Sanders’s personal effort to establish ties between his city and a country many Americans then still considered an enemy despite the reforms being initiated at the time under Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet general secretary.

They also show how the Kremlin viewed these sister city relationships as vehicles to sway American public opinion about the Soviet Union.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/bernie-sanders-soviet-russia.html

[mountaineer]

Is the NYT writing this at the DNC's behest?

[PeteS in CA]

Bernie-Russian Collusion?  

[mortarman]

Is the NYT writing this at the DNC's behest?

Well they are the Dis-Loyal Opposition's Propaganda Ministry afterall.

 

[jmyrlefuller]

How was I to know
He was with the Russians, too?

With apologies to Warren Zevon.

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[mystery-ak]

Soviet Union Documents Reveal Plans To Exploit Bernie Sanders For ‘Propaganda’
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/06/soviet-union-documents-reveal-plans-to-exploit-bernie-sanders-for-propaganda/

[mystery-ak]

Oh, So That's How The Soviets Used Bernie After He Visited The USSR
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/03/06/little-nikita-soviets-used-bernie-for-propaganda-material-n2563601

[mystery-ak]

Bernie Sanders’ Propaganda for the Communist Sandinistas Pales Next to John Kerry’s
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2020/03/07/bernie-sanders-propaganda-for-the-communist-sandinistas-pales-next-to-john-kerrys-n2563623

[musiclady]

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[rangerrebew]

 Soviet Union Documents Reveal Plans To Exploit Bernie Sanders For ‘Propaganda’
March 6, 2020 By Chrissy Clark

New documents obtained by the New York Times reveal how the Soviet Union viewed then Burlington, Vermont Mayor Bernie Sanders as a “socialist” they could “exploit” for “propaganda.”

In December of 1987, Mayor Sanders wrote to the government of Yaroslavl, a Soviet city, stating he wanted the U.S. and USSR to “live together as friends.” He initiated a sister-city program between Yaroslavl and Burlington.

After his wedding, Sanders honeymooned with his wife Jane Sanders in Yaroslavl to initiate the program. He told Burlington reporters, “people [in Yaroslavl] seemed reasonably happy and content. I didn’t notice much deprivation.”

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/06/soviet-union-documents-reveal-plans-to-exploit-bernie-sanders-for-propaganda/

[austingirl]

Sanders is a useful idiot. A bum who never worked until he figured out, at the age of forty, how to suck off the government teat. A fool and a hypocrite with his three homes, paying his family with campaign funds, and destroying the environment with his private jet usage.