source https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19590924.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- TIL that during Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to the Mesla Machine Company steel plant in Pittsburgh, a worker named Kenneth Jackey handed him a cigar. Khrushchev didn’t smoke and in return, gave Jackey his wristwatch. Later, Jackey had the watch appraised for insurance and was told it was worth only $14.

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[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That was so not the case at the end of WWII that Nazis wound up running NATO

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no reason to make the same mistake again though

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Oh, absolutely. But it's not a foregone conclusion.