Posted on 07/15/2019 10:17:40 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A senior citizen has been detained in Russia for attempting to install a plaque commemorating Richard Nixon’s visit to a small mining town dating back 70 years.
Vice President Richard Nixon traveled to Degtyarsk in 1959 as part of his visit to the Soviet Union, which culminated in his so-called “Kitchen Debate” with Nikita Khrushchev. Local lore claims that Nixon had spent his teens in the small town, where his parents had allegedly worked, in the mid-to-late 1920s.
Pyotr Kikilyk, 75, wanted to commemorate Nixon’s 1959 visit to Degtyarsk with a granite plaque over the weekend at the building of the Degtyarsk Mining Administration, signed: “from the grateful residents of Degyarsk and the Urals.”
Another local activist in support of the plaque called it “an act of friendship."
“We want to restore relations between our peoples; we used to have normal cooperation with the U.S.A., which greatly helped us during World War II,” he was cited as saying by the mstrok.ru local news website.
Local police, however, had other plans. They detained Kiklyk at the ceremony and charged him with organizing an unauthorized event, the OVD-Info police monitoring website reported, citing a human rights activist. Police reportedly seized the plaque and kept Kikliyk overnight.
Municipal authorities had earlier denied Kikilyk and his team permission to hold the ceremony.
Tragically, this story could be from the US. The tree of liberty has withered quite a bit since 1959.
Nixon visited this town 60 years ago, not 70. The author of this story needs to check his/her math.
I ought to know; I was born in 1959.
“Da, comrade. We thought highly of President Nixon. But he got caught. SO, no plaque for him!”
“Da, comrade. We thought highly of President Nixon. But he got caught. SO, no plaque for him!”
If you asked Russians who their favorite US Presidents were, they would say Reagan and Nixon. They respected them, even if at the time we were on opposing sides of The Cold War.
“Local lore claims that Nixon had spent his teens in the small town, where his parents had allegedly worked, in the mid-to-late 1920s.”
What a bizarre local legend.
Here's another bizarre local legend:
Obama was born in Hawaii...................
Well President Nixon’s signature is on the Moon so there ,LOL
I'm impressed that you can remember news stories from when you were less than a year old.
I was in grade school in 1959 and knew who the President was, but I don't know if I knew who Nixon was until he ran for President in 1960.
There is now more evidence for that than for collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
I think Reagan and FDR. Nixon and Clinton were the least liked. Although Obama took Nixon’s place now and few people remember Nixon at all anymore.
Seems pretty harmless. Don’t Russian cops have any REAL crime to deal with?
In that exact town the cops are doing nothing most of the time. In fact the guy tried to place a plaque on a corporate property damaging the exterior in process and it somehow justifies response.
I somehow believe a plaque makes sense since Nixon’s visit was quite an event for a small town where nothing happens but it makes sense to negotiate it with the owner of the building too.
Nixon visited this town 60 years ago, not 70. The author of this story needs to check his/her math.
I ought to know; I was born in 1959.
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“According to legend”, you are 70 years old.
Nixon visited this town 60 years ago, not 70. The author of this story needs to check his/her math.
I ought to know; I was born in 1959.
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“According to legend”, you are 70 years old.
“I ought to know; I was born in 1959.”
So was I, and thanks for beating me to it.
For a moment there I thought I should have retired already.
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