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TIL when Lee Harvey Oswald arrived in Moscow, he said to the interpreter about his communist beliefs and intention to obtain the nationality of the USSR. For his twentieth birthday, two days after Oswald's arrival, this interpreter gives him a copy of Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot".

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