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…many details in the interview might contain confidential information, “no one will have access to it—neither scholars, nor government officials, nor congressional commissions, nor journalists, nor members of the Kennedy family—except under conditions you might wish to set”⁴⁹. The Soviet leadership responded positively to this request as well. By a resolution of the CPSU Central Committee Presidium on July 29, 1964, the library was provided with copies of a documentary film about the meeting of the two leaders in Vienna and a recording of Khrushchev’s speech in the Austrian capital in 1961, as well as certain materials published in the Soviet press⁵⁰.

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Troyanovsky, in his memoirs, wrote that in the U.S., every American clearly remembers where they were when the news of Kennedy’s assassination arrived, adding: “I think the same can be said of many Russians”⁵¹. Indeed, ordinary Soviet citizens perceived the American tragedy quite personally. Reflecting on the seemingly paradoxical nature of this phenomenon, Dobrynin believed that the key role was played by the Cuban Missile Crisis, which had brought the world to the brink of catastrophe⁵². Its fortunate resolution on both sides of the ocean brought universal relief. For the majority of Soviet and American citizens, it became evident that, despite any ideological or socio-political differences, preventing a nuclear war and a global apocalypse was an absolute necessity.

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Footnotes:

⁴⁹ See Document No. 78.  
⁵⁰ See Document No. 83.  
⁵¹ Troyanovsky, *Through Years and Distances*..., p. 258.  
⁵² Dobrynin, *In Confidence*..., pp. 99–100.

Compiler: A.N. Artizov