Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
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He banged his shoe at the UN, launched Sputnik, and brought the world to the brink over Cuba — but the real shock was what he said about Stalin. Khrushchev tore down the myth of his predecessor and cracked open the Soviet system from within, a gamble that bought him power and eventually cost him everything.
Born in a Russian village in 1894, Khrushchev worked as a metal worker before rising through the party ranks under Lazar Kaganovich's patronage. During Stalin's rule he was an enthusiastic enforcer, approving thousands of arrests in the Great Purge and continuing the bloodletting when sent to govern Ukraine in 1938. He served as a commissar in World War II, proud of his role at Stalingrad, and became one of Stalin's close advisers in Moscow. When Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Khrushchev won the power struggle that followed and delivered his "Secret Speech" on 25 February 1956, denouncing the pu…
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We have come to this town where lives the cream of American art.… But just now I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked "Why not? What is it?
I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W.
A man emaciated by a grave illness is at first treated by doctors gradually. Food is administered to him in small doses. If more is administered to the patient, it might kill him.
If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again.
When it is a question of fighting against imperialism we can state with conviction that we are all Stalinists.
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