#pushinka

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Pushinka with her puppies on the White House Lawn, 1963, photographed by Cecil Stoughton.

Pushinka (Russian for "fluffy") was the daughter of Strelka, one of the dogs that the USSR had sent to space aboard the Korabl-Sputnik 2 on August 19th, 1960. Nikita Khrushchev gifted Pushinka to the Kennedys, marking a bright spot in the Cold War tensions. Pushinka and Charlie, one of the Kennedys' other dogs, had four puppies, which JFK called "the pupniks".

Below is a letter JFK wrote to Khrushchev, thanking him for Pushinka:

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Resistenza, Lotta e Libertà, per sempre.

Buon 25 Aprile

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Strelka and her puppies. Pushinka, one of Strelka’s pups, was actually gifted to John F. Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 and went on to have her own pups with a Kennedy dog named Charlie (resulting in the joking name ‘pupniks’)

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Random Fact #837

Mikhail Gorbachev, then-leader of the USSR, gave JFK a dog named Pushinka as a present (she was the puppy of Strelka, one of the 2 first dogs to travel to space and survive the return journey).

Strelka and Charlie (the dog the Kennedys already owned) had a litter of puppies.

The US president called them “pupniks”.

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climbing to the top before sunset

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un anno di Pushinka

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