In the Cold War’s depths, a glimmer of light
by Peter Bridges
Jan 10, 2022
2 minutes
In 1963 my wife and I and our three small children – the oldest was 6 – completed our first year at the American Embassy in Moscow. I was a career diplomat, a political officer tasked with observing and reporting on what I could learn of the secretive Soviet scene.
It was the middle of the Cold War, the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet
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