The Sander's Yaroslavl honeymoon: May-June 1988.
Yaroslavl, Russia - The Russian Florence - City of Churches and Bears
Yaroslavl City Hall
While mayor of Burlington (1979-89), Bernie entered into a sister city relationship with Yaroslavl.
[ Joy Behar is eating her heart out. If she'd married an old commie, she could have had a dream honeymoon here. ]
Sanders created some controversy when he hung a Soviet flag in his mayoral office, in honor of Burlington's Soviet sister city, Yaroslavl, located some 160 miles northeast of Moscow.
According to an Accuracy In Media report, Sanders during the 1980s "collaborated with Soviet and East German 'peace committees'" whose aim was "to stop President Reagan’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.” Indeed, he “openly joined the Soviets’ 'nuclear freeze' campaign to undercut Reagan’s military build-up.”
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When Sanders in 1988 married his wife, Jane, the couple honeymooned in Yaroslavl, Russia. In an interview with that city's mayor, Alexander Riabkov, Sanders acknowledged that housing and health care were “significantly better” in the U.S. than in the Soviet Union, but added that “the cost of both services is much, much, higher in the United States.”
In November 1989 Sanders addressed the national conference of the U.S. Peace Council, a Communist Party USA front.
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