Correct answer.
The notion that the marine Oswald learned Russian without government supervision/training was a joke from day one.
“The notion that the marine Oswald learned Russian without government supervision/training was a joke from day one.”
Why? Plenty of people learn Russian on their own.
Oswald spoke Russian so well, that his wife , who did not know he was an American when she met him the first time, thought that Oswald was a from a Baltic state .