Puppy diplomacy #sovietstories #funfact #soviets

[0:00]Fun fact, in 1961, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev took one of the puppies of the famous space dogs Strelka and gifted it to JFK's daughter, Caroline Kennedy. A year after Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka went to space, orbited the Earth and came back alive, Soviet and US officials met in Vienna. During a dinner there, JFK's wife Jacqueline Kennedy asked Khrushchev what happened to Strelka's puppies, since the dogs were world famous back then. Soon after, Khrushchev sent one of Strelka's six puppies, named Pushinka, as a gift to Caroline Kennedy, successfully creating what many later called puppy diplomacy. But before Caroline, the CIA took Pushinka and inspected her with X-rays, a magnetometer and ultrasound, thinking it might be an espionage trick. But luckily, little Pushinka had no communist agenda, except some sausages and someone to play with. Later, Pushinka mated with another Kennedy family dog and gave birth to puppies that carried Strelka's bloodline around the White House, where some of Pushinka's descendants still play around today.