Like Sen. Sanders and his wife, my city youth choir *also* participated in the 'Sister Cities International' peace-building program. Our choir sang in our city's sister city in the USSR in the 1980s too. The program was started by President Eisenhower.https://sistercities.org/about-us/
Previously unseen documents from a Soviet Union archive show how hard Bernie Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s. Moscow saw a chance for propaganda, via @nytimeshttps://apple.news/A__FySyerSWi3ONLoxxiITw …
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As the program intended, the kids learned that humans around the world are more similar than we are different and that every nation has good and bad qualities. Gorbachev was president of the Soviet Union at the time. He pushed for democratization & later won a Nobel Peace Prize.
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