Question by Cardinal Richelieu: Who was the first US president to visit the Soviet Union?
Currently I am reading a background to how the Soviet Union came about in 1918 and I wondered how long it took for a US president to visit the country?
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Answer by marceldev29
it was Nixon in 1973
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brainstorm says
Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference.
Jeffrey S says
I am answering this to corroborate Semi-Mad Scientist's answer. FDR went to Yalta, in the Crimea (now part of Ukraine), in February, 1945, to meet with Churchill and Stalin. This was definitely the first visit by an American president to the Soviet Union.
Screaming Eagle says
Eisonhower.
Semi-Mad Scientist says
Franklin Roosevelt, at the Yalta conference in February 1945. I don't think that the three Republican presidents that preceded him travelled there. Yalta is in the Ukraine, which was a part of the Soviet Union at the time.
Tracey B says
President Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union (in May 1972) was the most epoch-making event since Soviet Premier Khrushchev's visit to the United States in 1959 in that it was the first visit ever made to the Soviet Union by an American President after the war.
this is directly quoted from the website http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/1972/…
also bbc on this day reports this event: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/…