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In 1955 while a student at Stanford, Feinstein personally hosted a delegation from the Soviet Writers Union when they toured the campus.
 
In 1955 while a student at Stanford, Feinstein personally hosted a delegation from the Soviet Writers Union when they toured the campus.
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As mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein issued an official city proclamation in support of that year’s World Festival of Youth and Students, held in [[Moscow]].
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As mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein issued an official city proclamation in support of the World Festival of Youth and Students, held in [[Moscow]]. The event was organized by the Soviet-controlled World Federation of Democratic Youth and was supported by the [[Communist Party USA]] in 1986.
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Feinstein traveled to Moscow that same year as part of a trade delegation of 450 U.S. businessmen and public officials.
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A little over a year later, on Jan. 27, 1987, Soviet Consul General Valentin Kamenev presented Feinstein with a Soviet streetcar: “A streetcar named desire.” Also present at the ceremony was Viktor Zhelezny, deputy chief of public transport for the Russian Republic.
    
==Political career==
 
==Political career==
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