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Toward a Historic Peace Summit
On September 23, 1775, Russian Empress Catherine the Great, rejected the request of the British King, George III, to send 20,000 soldiers to suppress the revolt for independence in America. Russian neutrality favored the Americans’ cause, decisively thwarting British efforts to defeat the rebels. Almost three centuries after Catherine the Great’s historic stance, it is time for the United States to return the favor to Russia.
