Was it common practice for a US academic institution to have a "sister school" in the USSR at the height of the cold war?
Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983. At this time Reagan was pushing SDI, the USSR was 6 years away from leaving Afghanistan with the CIA arming and funding the mujahedins in a proxy war, there were battles over the placement of medium range ballistic missiles in Europe and every high level summit held in Europe turned into a Friday night in Chicago.
Popular culture was full of movies like Rocky 4, Hunt for Red October and Red Dawn. Russia was the damn Evil Empire.
So how did Columbia maintain a "sister college" in the USSR?
Was it common practice for a US academic institution to have a "sister school" in the USSR at the height of the cold war?
Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983. At this time Reagan was pushing SDI, the USSR was 6 years away from leaving Afghanistan with the CIA arming and funding the mujahedins in a proxy war, there were battles over the placement of medium range ballistic missiles in Europe and every high level summit held in Europe turned into a Friday night in Chicago.
Popular culture was full of movies like Rocky 4, Hunt for Red October and Red Dawn. Russia was the damn Evil Empire.
So how did Columbia maintain a "sister college" in the USSR?
We've been commie academically for a while now.
I was just graduating high school in 83, and sound asleep during the Obama years.
I started waking up when trump ran for office.
It's been fun, Babylon is fallen fallen, and we are watching a judgment.