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[[File:Maxim_Litvinov_1932.jpg|thumbnail|300px250px|left|Maxim Litinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs in 1932]]__NOTOC__
On November 16, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ended almost 16 years of American non-recognition of the Soviet Union following a series of negotiations in Washington, D.C. with the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinov.