found on reddit most there dont seem to get this is a good thing lol

source https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19590924.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- TIL that during Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to the Mesla Machine Company steel plant in Pittsburgh, a worker named Kenneth Jackey handed him a cigar. Khrushchev didn’t smoke and in return, gave Jackey his wristwatch. Later, Jackey had the watch appraised for insurance and was told it was worth only $14.

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    Now, why would a principled communist want anything that belonged to that revisionist nutjob?

    (Tbf, there is a piece of communist history of a similar nature (the teddy bear that East Germany gave to Fidel Castro) I’d like to know what happened to, so I can’t be too critical, at least of the wanting to know what happened to the watch.)