American millionaire Armand Hammer (1898-1990) was a great friend of the Soviet Union. In particular, in the 20s, during the NEP (new economic policy), he built a pencil factory named after Sacco and Vanzetti. Armand Hammer entered the circle of businessmen close to the Soviet
leaders and personally meet Lenin. He became the first American to receive a concession in Soviet Russia — an asbestos Deposit near Alapaevsk.
On October 27, 1921, the people's Commissariat for foreign trade of the RSFSR and the Allied Drug and Chemical Corporation signed an agreement to supply 1 million bushels of American wheat to Soviet Russia in exchange for furs, black caviar, and jewelry expropriated by the Bolsheviks stored in Gokhran, but this is not the case.
Once, in the late 70s, he, already an old man, arrived in Moscow at about two o'clock in the morning. Hummer was given a car and was going to be taken to the hotel, but he suddenly demanded to take him to Red Square, where he wanted to visit the Lenin Mausoleum.
They began to explain to him that it was already three o'clock in the morning, the mausoleum was closed, maybe tomorrow morning?
Hammer pulled a yellowed photo of Lenin from his pocket
with the caption: "Comrade Hammer is allowed to see me at any time of the day or night. V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) 20.XI.1921."