Russia’s interference in foreign elections is hardly a new practice. In the recently-declassified archives of the KGB, historians have found a document detailing how the USSR was to interfere in the US 1964 elections to attack Republican anti-Communist hardliner Barry Goldwater, who ultimately suffered a landslide loss against Democrat Lyndon Johnson.
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Eduard Andryushchenko: How the USSR interfered in the 1964 US presidential election
(FILES) Photo dated 1964 shows then presidential hopeful Barry Goldwater (R) with his running mate William Miller.
