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...Kennan was stopped short by big posters announcing Russia's annual Red Air Force Day celebrations. The posters showed So viet warplanes attacking U.S. planes, and apparently they were drawn from real life...
Ambassador Kennan wrote an angry protest, adding some stiff comments about Russia's current Hate America propaganda campaign, and fired it off to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Later the same day, a Soviet messenger appeared...
Embassy with invitations for the air force show. Kennan bade him take the invitations back to the Kremlin. For the sake of solidarity with the U.S., the British am bassador and the French charge d'affaires boycotted the show too. But being practical men. all three sent their air attaches to the show...
Whether this was a legitimate request or just one more form of Russian harassment, Kennan could not be sure. The Russians said they need the place for expanding Moscow University, which is next door. The embassy building, erected in 1933 to house Soviet artists and composers, costs the U.S. an annual rent of 250,000 rubles (about $62,500). Shoddily made and shy of electrical outlets for the gadget-loving Americans, 13-15 Mokhovaya also has its advantages-it is only a mile from the Ambassador's residence (a pre-revolutionary palace called Spaso House), and has a window...
...real test will be what kind of quarters Kennan can find. It's all up to the only landlord in Russia, the state...