Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

It is a complicated world.
Exiled American Outlives Stalin's Shadow
By MICHAEL WINES



UBNA, Russia — When David Natanovich Bell first applied for a visa to visit the United States, at the American Embassy in Moscow in October 1987, the consular official took one brief look at his Soviet passport and one long look at him. She left the room, then returned with her boss.
"So," they asked him, "do you want to renew your American citizenship?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/22/international/europe/22BELL.html