When Was Bernie Sanders Honeymoon?

Bernie Sanders, a popular Democrat senator, has been accused of honeymooning in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. The popular Democrat senator, who was then mayor of Burlington, later described the trip as “a very strange honeymoon” in his 1997 memoir, Outsider in the House. The trip, which took place in 1988, included a diplomatic trip to Yaroslavl, a city in the Soviet Union, where Sanders and his wife, Jane, decided it would be the perfect place for his honeymoon. In a tape of his interview with Yaroslavl’s mayor, Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, and sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles.

Sanders’s honeymoon to the Soviet Union is held up by his opponents as evidence of dubious judgment, Communist sympathies, or anti-American tendencies. A new report from the Washington Post shows that Sanders blasted U.S. foreign and domestic policy at a Russian city. Sanders also praised communist leaders in the past, but no hard evidence of his claim is available.

An anti-Sanders effort is underway, with a burgeoning effort to expose the truth about Sanders’s honeymoon in the Soviet Union. The state of the country in 1988 wouldn’t have made him a communist sympathizer, and the honeymoon in the Soviet Union is part of a government trip to establish a relationship between the two nations.