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Tiktaalik
on Jan 16, 2023
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Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston superm...
There's a similar story of years earlier Mikhail Gorbachev visiting a Canadian grocery and being surprised and impressed.
https://www.tvo.org/article/in-1983-gorbachev-took-a-stroll-...
alamortsubite
on Jan 16, 2023
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This is a much better article. It rings truer to the spirit of OP's post, whose timeline I think is too advanced to be believable; by '89 the tide had already turned.
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