Jim Slattery arrived at the Stalin-era presidential headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine, with an unusual gift for the nation’s strongman leader: a bust of Abraham Lincoln. It was March 2013, and the former U.S. congressman had traveled to Ukraine to persuade President Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, to free Yanukovych’s arch rival from prison. The statuette came with a hopeful message: You, Slattery told the president, could be the Lincoln of Ukraine – a leader who binds up the nation’s wounds.
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