#352 | Lee Harvey Oswald | The Man Who Killed A President
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Oswald's Journey to the Soviet Union
Oswald Kennedy defected to the Soviet Union in October 1961. He arrived in Moscow, but his visa was only valid for a week. So he immediately tried to become a citizen of the USSR. But when he met with a Russian visa official and asked to become a citizens, he was told that the USSR is only great in literature. Distraught, three days after his 20th birthday, and less than a week after arriving in the Soviet Union, Oswald attempted suicide. According to his diary, his plan was, end it, soak wrist in cold water to numb the pain, then slash my left wrist. The young man later married Marina Nicolevna-Prozakova;
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