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二战结束后不久,苏联决定邀请英国的蒙哥马利元帅前来进行正式访问。当时,他是英国最著名的军事长官,并已获得了阿拉曼公爵称号。访问日程很久才谈妥,最终定于1947年1月。在抵达的当天,蒙哥马利应该拜会苏军总参谋长、苏联元帅亚历山大·华西列夫斯基。原定在拜会时送给蒙哥马利一件苏联纪念品,可是送给贵宾什么礼物,却使苏方颇费脑筋,好像通常的民族纪念品中没什么东西对他合适,而且当时也还没制作任何特制礼物。终于,有人想出了一个点子:给他赶制一件苏联灰鼠皮军大衣和一顶将军戴的灰羊羔皮帽。最终,蒙哥马利来到了莫
Soon after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union decided to invite Marshall Montgomery of Britain to make an official visit. At that time, he was Britain’s most famous military chief and has won the title of Duke Al-Salamanca. It took a long time before the agenda was finalized and was finally set in January 1947. On the day of arrival, Montgomery should call on the Soviet chief of staff, the Soviet Marshal Alexander Vasilievsky. Originally intended to give Montgomery a Soviet souvenir upon his visit, the gift given to the honored guests gave the Soviet authorities quite a headache, as if nothing in the usual national souvenirs was right for him, and at that time there were not any special gifts made. Finally, somebody came up with the idea of sending him a Soviet squirrel-skin coat and a general’s gray lambskin hat. In the end, Montgomery came to Mo