Joe Biden traveled to the USSR with Richard Lugar in either 1972 or 1974.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The Lugar Senatorial Papers, a primary archive, document a 1970s CODEL trip by Senators Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar to Moscow and Leningrad, which supports the core claim of a joint USSR trip.
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… It's based on the same set of assumptions. So that's the first thing. Back in '22, the first thing, or even years earlier, that struck me, and even I have something on, on Joe Biden, back in, I think it was either '72 or '74, went over to the USSR with Richard Luger of Indiana, and the respect that he showed Soviet leaders versus what he, what he, how he talks about Putin today. In other words, the U.S. Was far more sympathetic to the USSR than has been. If the Cold War was a real thing, that would have been going on then. …
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Contradicts. RBTH states Biden visited the USSR in 1973, which falls outside the claimed 1972 or 1974, though this unrated source is not of comparable authority to the archive and also misdates Biden's entry into the Senate to 1972.[2]
Supports. The Richard G. Lugar Senatorial Papers describe a CODEL trip taken by Senators Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar, tagged with Moscow, Leningrad, and Soviet Union, dated to the 1970s.[1]
Context. The archive snippet gives the decade but not the exact year, so neither the 1972 nor the 1974 date is independently confirmed by a primary record.[1]
Sources
2 sources: 1 primary, 1 not rated
- 1Browse Items · The Richard G. Lugar Senatorial Paperscollections.libraries.indiana.edu · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 2Joe Biden's long history with Moscowrbth.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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