(Donna Light/AP)Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988. The trip to the Soviet Union was, at that time, Sanders’s most significant foreign venture. U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were in the midst of transformation. The timing of Sanders’s trip drew much notice. While he failed in his goal to meet Fidel Castro, he returned home with even greater praise than he had for the Soviet Union.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2019 10:00 UTC