An American millionaire, Armand Hammer was a great friend of the Soviet Union.
In particular, he built a pencil factory named Sakko and Vanzetti in
The 20s, a port factory with ammonia storage under Odessa and so on, but we are not talking about it).
At any time of day and night...
One day, at the end of the 1970s, he flew to Moscow (as usual, on his plane) around two o’clock at night. Hammer was given a car to the stairs and was going to be taken to the hotel, but he suddenly demanded to take him to the hotel.
Red Square, where he visited Lenin's mausoleum.
He was told that it was three o’clock at night, the mausoleum was closed, maybe tomorrow morning?
For this, Hammer pulled out of his pocket a paper with the following text:
"Comrades of Hammer are allowed to come to me at any time of day or night. V. and
of Ulyanov (Lenin)