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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev[a] (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971)[1][2] was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
Khrushchev was born in 1894 in the village of Kalinovka, which is close to the present-day border between Russia and Ukraine. He was employed as a metal worker during his youth, and he was a political commissar during the Russian Civil War. With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He supported Joseph Stalin's purges, and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern Ukraine, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II), Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the bloody defense of Stalingrad, a fact he took great pride in throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers.
On 5 March 1953, the death of Stalin triggered a power struggle in which Khrushchev emerged victorious after consolidating his leadership of the party with that of the Council of Ministers. On 25 February 1956, at the 20th Party Congress, he delivered the "Secret Speech", which denounced Stalin's purges and ushered in a less repressive era in the Soviet Union. His domestic policies, aimed at bettering the lives of ordinary citizens, were often ineffective, especially in agriculture. Hoping eventually to rely on missiles for national defense, Khrushchev ordered major cuts in conventional forces. Despite the cuts, Khrushchev's rule saw the most tense years of the Cold War, culminating in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Khrushchev's popularity was eroded by flaws in his policies. This emboldened his potential opponents, who quietly rose in strength and deposed the Premier in October 1964. However, he did not suffer the deadly fate of previous Soviet power struggles, and was pensioned off with an apartment in Moscow and a dacha in the countryside. His lengthy memoirs were smuggled to the West and published in part in 1970. Khrushchev died in 1971 of a heart attack.
Khrushchev was born in 1894 in the village of Kalinovka, which is close to the present-day border between Russia and Ukraine. He was employed as a metal worker during his youth, and he was a political commissar during the Russian Civil War. With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He supported Joseph Stalin's purges, and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern Ukraine, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II), Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the bloody defense of Stalingrad, a fact he took great pride in throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers.
On 5 March 1953, the death of Stalin triggered a power struggle in which Khrushchev emerged victorious after consolidating his leadership of the party with that of the Council of Ministers. On 25 February 1956, at the 20th Party Congress, he delivered the "Secret Speech", which denounced Stalin's purges and ushered in a less repressive era in the Soviet Union. His domestic policies, aimed at bettering the lives of ordinary citizens, were often ineffective, especially in agriculture. Hoping eventually to rely on missiles for national defense, Khrushchev ordered major cuts in conventional forces. Despite the cuts, Khrushchev's rule saw the most tense years of the Cold War, culminating in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Khrushchev's popularity was eroded by flaws in his policies. This emboldened his potential opponents, who quietly rose in strength and deposed the Premier in October 1964. However, he did not suffer the deadly fate of previous Soviet power struggles, and was pensioned off with an apartment in Moscow and a dacha in the countryside. His lengthy memoirs were smuggled to the West and published in part in 1970. Khrushchev died in 1971 of a heart attack.
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Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that April 15 is the anniversary of the birth of metal worker during his youth, and a political commissar during the Russian Civil War Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
Secrets Of War, The Cold War 07 Khrushchev's Regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIkhrInjSyE
Background from coolbiography.com/nikita-khrushchev-2/
"Nikita Khrushchev 1894 ~ 1971
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born on 17th of April 1894 in Kalinovka, Southern Russia. Khrushchev was an important army power in world politics during the second half of the twentieth century. The leadership Nikita Khrushchev maintained played a vital role during the peak of the Cold War, a 40-year standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. Khrushchev was one of the trusted people who betrayed Joseph Stalin by helping one of the bodyguards to poison him in his quarters. Joseph Stalin was in power of the USSR at that time, was ruining the men by throwing away drinking parties and asking them to entertain him for long hours which was a humiliation to these men. As a national citizen, Khrushchev lived a quiet and normal life until he died on 11th September 1971. No one can deny his attempts to de-Stalinize his nation that led to the betterment of peaceful everyday life in the Soviet Union.
-EARLY YEARS AND REVOLUTION
Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 17th in the year 1894 in Southern Russia, Kalinowski. He learned to read and write from a religious school at a young age. During his studies, he took a part-time job of cattle rearing because his parents were poor peasants. After on in his teens, he became a mechanic apprentice in Yuzovka which was a developing town in Ukraine, where his father worked as a miner. When his training period got over, he was appointed as a machine repairman in the coal mines of the region, where he worked for almost years. Nikita Khrushchev then considered migrating to the United States for a better salary, but his financial background did not permit him, so he had to drop the plan. When the 1st World War broke out in 1917, Khrushchev the then skilled metal worker was employed by a workshop that was high in demand serving ten mines which had better work conditions.
After the abduction of Tsar Nicholas, the new Russian Government had little influence over Ukraine. Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the worker’s council (Soviet) in May. In 1918 Russian civil war broke out between the Bolsheviks and the White Army. Nikita Khrushchev was not interested in joining the Bolsheviks because he had a feeling that the Bolsheviks was sought of gaining political power while the opponents gave importance to economic growth.
Nikita Khrushchev joined the Communist Party, a party who believes that goods and services should be owned distributed by the ruling government at the age of 24 in 1918. As a member of the Communist leadership, Khrushchev was enrolled in the Red Army to fight in the Civil War which was then in progress when the Russian Revolution was taking over the country. The czarist rule of Russia was overthrown by the Communist “The Bolsheviks” led by Vladimir Lenin and communism took control of whole Russia in 1917. Since a majority of the people disagreed with the newly formed so-called government soon a Civil War broke out between the Red Guards who stood for the Bolsheviks and the Whites who opposed the new government. In 1921, the Civil War ended, and Khrushchev and his men lived in poor conditions as he was demolished and assigned to a labor brigade in the Donabas as a commissar.
The war has caused great damage and famine in the country. One of the victims who suffered the diseases and hunger was Nikita Khrushchev’s wife, Yefrosinia due to typhus while Khrushchev was in the army. On her funeral Yefrosinisia’s coffin was refused to enter the local church by his loyal Bolshevik principles, so Khrushchev had to lift the coffin and passed over the fence as the only way into the churchyard through the church which shocked the village people.
-INVOLVEMENT IN PURGES
Though Nikita Khrushchev could not complete his studies in the Stalin Industrial Academy his influences in party flourished. Khrushchev attributed his intense rise to his fellow mate of the academy who was Stalin’s wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She spoke well of Khrushchev to her husband leading to a strong trust in him. Khrushchev undertook considerable risk in the construction of the Moscow Metro where he spends most of his time in the tunnel. When inevitable accidents occurred in the tunnel, they were depicted as heroes of great significance. Though the Metro was not inaugurated as scheduled Nikita Khrushchev received the Order of Lenin for his role in the construction work. Later, he became the First Secretary of Moscow Regional Committee which had a population of over 11 million inhabitants.
As Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev build good terms of relation, Stalin felt warm affection to his young subordinate Khrushchev who always admired the dictator and treasured informal meetings with Stalin. Millions of people were executed when Stalin began a political campaign in 1934. In the campaign, Khrushchev showed his great support by stating that anyone who found happiness in the success achieved by the country and the party lead by Stalin will find only one suitable word for the mercenary, fascist dogs of the opposing gang “Execution”. Khrushchev assisted his friends in the purge of many colleagues and friends in Moscow Oblast where 35 top political officials were killed and 3 survived. The survivors were then transferred to USSR. Outside the Moscow city, only a counted number of 10 survived the purge. Almost everyone who worked with him was arrested but he did nothing to save his friends.
In late 1937, Nikita Khrushchev was appointed as head of the Communist party in Russia and Khrushchev left Moscow for Kiev. Ukraine was the ground of extensive purges, with the murdered including professors in Stalino whom Khrushchev showed great respected. The top-level ranks of the Party were not immune; the Central Committee of Ukraine was so devastated that it could not convene a quorum. After Khrushchev’s arrival, accelerated the pace of arrests of all but only one member of the Ukrainian Politburo Organizational Bureau and Secretariat were arrested. The whole government officials and Red Army commanders were replaced. During the first few months after Khrushchev’s arrival, almost everyone who was arrested received the death penalty as punishment.
According to Biographer William Taubman, it is suggested that because Nikita Khrushchev was again unsuccessfully denounced while in Kiev, he must have known that some of the denunciations were untrue and that many innocent people were suffering. In 1939, Khrushchev addressed the Fourteenth Ukrainian Party Congress, asking the Comrades, to unmask and relentlessly destroy all the enemies of the people and not a single honest Bolshevik should be allowed to be harmed but a struggle against slanderers to be conducted.
-WORLD WAR II – KHRUSHCHEV TAKES OVER STALIN
During the 2nd World War, Nikita Khrushchev organized troops to fight against Nazi Germany in the Ukraine and Stalingrad. Ukraine’s industry has been destroyed agriculture face a substantial shortage. The war years of 1944 and 1945 saw the poorest harvest. Knowing that Stalin had huge quantities of grains from Ukraine, Stalin gave only a limited food aid after Khrushchev made numerous attempts requesting for food and when it went out unnoticed Khrushchev himself filed a case in person. However, this situation brought Khrushchev’s political stand to its downfall, and was removed as the political leader.
Nikita Khrushchev’s final years in Ukraine was very peaceful with industries recovering. He helped Ukraine rebuild its devastated countryside and saw well than expected harvest in 1948. Khrushchev implemented more policies that encouraged the collectivization and degraded private farms. Due to conflicts between the peasants and private farm holders, Khrushchev introduced the idea of ‘agro-town’. Instead of living in villages close to the farm, they moved out to larger towns far away which offered municipal offers. The one and only such town Khrushchev completed was dedicated to Stalin as his 70th birthday present.
On March 1st, 1953, Stalin suffered a massive stroke after getting up from sleep and on 6th March Stalin died. Even when the doctors treated Stalin, Khrushchev and his members were in deep conversation about forming a new government. Nikita Khrushchev positioned himself as the new possible successor. After a period of 6 months, he became the leader of the Communist Party and one of the most righteous people in USSR. In the beginning, Nikita Khrushchev and other highly ranked members rule Ukraine through a form of collective leadership. But in 1955 the ouster of Premier Georgi Malenkov was organized and replaced him with an ally, Nikolai Bulganin. Khrushchev foiled a coup attempt led by Malenkov and took over the premiership in following March.
-DE-STALINIZATION PROCESS BY KHRUSHCHEV
The loyal Stalinist, Nikita Khrushchev once gave a long speech in February 1956 criticizing about Stalin about arresting and deporting opponent members for elevating himself above the party and for incompetent wartime leadership among things. This withering incomplete indictment of Stalin was supposed to be kept as a secret. However, in that June, the U.S. State Department released the complete text. Nikita Khrushchev made minor attempts to rehabilitate Stalin’s image, but he switched the course when the city of Stalingrad was renamed, and the remains of Stalin was removed from Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square in 1961.
Nikita Khrushchev’s so-called ‘secret speech’ lead to the protests to the streets in the Soviet regions of Poland and Hungary. The Polish Revolt was fairly resolved by peaceful means while the Hungarian Revolt was fiercely suppressed with tanks and troops. Around 2500 Hungarians were killed and about 13000 were seriously injured. Many fled while the caught were arrested and deported. Khrushchev diminished the power of Soviet Union’s feared secret police, releasing many political prisoners, relaxed the artistic censorship, opened the country widely to foreign visitors and inaugurated the space age in 1957 with the launch of the Sputnik satellite, which hit the moon two years later and in 1961 Soviet Union Yuri A. Gagarin became the first man in space. Nikita Khrushchev also worked for increasing agricultural production and to raise the betterment of the standards of the living in Ukraine.
-KHRUSHCHEV’S RELATIONSHIP WITH FOREIGN LEADERS
Nikita Khrushchev faced a complicated relationship with the West. As a strong believer in communism, he nonetheless preferred communal harmonization with capitalist countries. He even visited the United States which deteriorated the relationship between the two superpowers. The following year Khrushchev gave approval for the construction of the Berlin Wall in order to intrude the East Germans from fleeing to capitalist West Germany. Cold War tensions reached its peak in October 1962 when the States found Soviet nuclear missiles stationed in Cuba. The world faced to be on the brink of nuclear conflict, but, after a 13-day standoff, Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the weapons. In return the then President John F. Kennedy publicly consented not to attack Cuba. America also privately agreed to remove the American nuclear weapons out of Turkey. In 1963 the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union negotiated a partial nuclear test ban.
One of the sharpest thorns in Khrushchev’s side was from his fellow communist Mao Zeadong, the leader of China. The two parties engaged in increasingly vindictive words of war, with Nikita Khrushchev stating Mao as a “left revisionist” who failed to comprehend the modern warfare, while on the other hand, the Chinese criticized Khrushchev as a “psalm-singing buffoon” who underestimated the nature of Western Imperialism.
-KHRUSHCHEV’S FALL FROM POWER
The flaws with China and the shortage of food over the USSR washed away Nikita Khrushchev’s legitimacy in the eyes of other high-ranking officials of the Soviet, who were completely bothered by what they saw as his erratic tendency to undercut their authority. Khrushchev was called back from vacation and was forced to resign as both premier and head of the Communist Party in October 1964. Nikita Khrushchev wrote down all his memories and lived a quiet life during the remaining days. He died of heart attack on September 11, 1971. He was denied state funeral with interment in the Kremlin Wall but was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Fearing the demonstrations his death was not reported until the hours of his wake and troops surrounding his cemetery. His spirit of reforms lived on during the perestroika era of the 1980s."
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Secrets Of War, The Cold War 07 Khrushchev's Regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIkhrInjSyE
Background from coolbiography.com/nikita-khrushchev-2/
"Nikita Khrushchev 1894 ~ 1971
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born on 17th of April 1894 in Kalinovka, Southern Russia. Khrushchev was an important army power in world politics during the second half of the twentieth century. The leadership Nikita Khrushchev maintained played a vital role during the peak of the Cold War, a 40-year standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. Khrushchev was one of the trusted people who betrayed Joseph Stalin by helping one of the bodyguards to poison him in his quarters. Joseph Stalin was in power of the USSR at that time, was ruining the men by throwing away drinking parties and asking them to entertain him for long hours which was a humiliation to these men. As a national citizen, Khrushchev lived a quiet and normal life until he died on 11th September 1971. No one can deny his attempts to de-Stalinize his nation that led to the betterment of peaceful everyday life in the Soviet Union.
-EARLY YEARS AND REVOLUTION
Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 17th in the year 1894 in Southern Russia, Kalinowski. He learned to read and write from a religious school at a young age. During his studies, he took a part-time job of cattle rearing because his parents were poor peasants. After on in his teens, he became a mechanic apprentice in Yuzovka which was a developing town in Ukraine, where his father worked as a miner. When his training period got over, he was appointed as a machine repairman in the coal mines of the region, where he worked for almost years. Nikita Khrushchev then considered migrating to the United States for a better salary, but his financial background did not permit him, so he had to drop the plan. When the 1st World War broke out in 1917, Khrushchev the then skilled metal worker was employed by a workshop that was high in demand serving ten mines which had better work conditions.
After the abduction of Tsar Nicholas, the new Russian Government had little influence over Ukraine. Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the worker’s council (Soviet) in May. In 1918 Russian civil war broke out between the Bolsheviks and the White Army. Nikita Khrushchev was not interested in joining the Bolsheviks because he had a feeling that the Bolsheviks was sought of gaining political power while the opponents gave importance to economic growth.
Nikita Khrushchev joined the Communist Party, a party who believes that goods and services should be owned distributed by the ruling government at the age of 24 in 1918. As a member of the Communist leadership, Khrushchev was enrolled in the Red Army to fight in the Civil War which was then in progress when the Russian Revolution was taking over the country. The czarist rule of Russia was overthrown by the Communist “The Bolsheviks” led by Vladimir Lenin and communism took control of whole Russia in 1917. Since a majority of the people disagreed with the newly formed so-called government soon a Civil War broke out between the Red Guards who stood for the Bolsheviks and the Whites who opposed the new government. In 1921, the Civil War ended, and Khrushchev and his men lived in poor conditions as he was demolished and assigned to a labor brigade in the Donabas as a commissar.
The war has caused great damage and famine in the country. One of the victims who suffered the diseases and hunger was Nikita Khrushchev’s wife, Yefrosinia due to typhus while Khrushchev was in the army. On her funeral Yefrosinisia’s coffin was refused to enter the local church by his loyal Bolshevik principles, so Khrushchev had to lift the coffin and passed over the fence as the only way into the churchyard through the church which shocked the village people.
-INVOLVEMENT IN PURGES
Though Nikita Khrushchev could not complete his studies in the Stalin Industrial Academy his influences in party flourished. Khrushchev attributed his intense rise to his fellow mate of the academy who was Stalin’s wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She spoke well of Khrushchev to her husband leading to a strong trust in him. Khrushchev undertook considerable risk in the construction of the Moscow Metro where he spends most of his time in the tunnel. When inevitable accidents occurred in the tunnel, they were depicted as heroes of great significance. Though the Metro was not inaugurated as scheduled Nikita Khrushchev received the Order of Lenin for his role in the construction work. Later, he became the First Secretary of Moscow Regional Committee which had a population of over 11 million inhabitants.
As Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev build good terms of relation, Stalin felt warm affection to his young subordinate Khrushchev who always admired the dictator and treasured informal meetings with Stalin. Millions of people were executed when Stalin began a political campaign in 1934. In the campaign, Khrushchev showed his great support by stating that anyone who found happiness in the success achieved by the country and the party lead by Stalin will find only one suitable word for the mercenary, fascist dogs of the opposing gang “Execution”. Khrushchev assisted his friends in the purge of many colleagues and friends in Moscow Oblast where 35 top political officials were killed and 3 survived. The survivors were then transferred to USSR. Outside the Moscow city, only a counted number of 10 survived the purge. Almost everyone who worked with him was arrested but he did nothing to save his friends.
In late 1937, Nikita Khrushchev was appointed as head of the Communist party in Russia and Khrushchev left Moscow for Kiev. Ukraine was the ground of extensive purges, with the murdered including professors in Stalino whom Khrushchev showed great respected. The top-level ranks of the Party were not immune; the Central Committee of Ukraine was so devastated that it could not convene a quorum. After Khrushchev’s arrival, accelerated the pace of arrests of all but only one member of the Ukrainian Politburo Organizational Bureau and Secretariat were arrested. The whole government officials and Red Army commanders were replaced. During the first few months after Khrushchev’s arrival, almost everyone who was arrested received the death penalty as punishment.
According to Biographer William Taubman, it is suggested that because Nikita Khrushchev was again unsuccessfully denounced while in Kiev, he must have known that some of the denunciations were untrue and that many innocent people were suffering. In 1939, Khrushchev addressed the Fourteenth Ukrainian Party Congress, asking the Comrades, to unmask and relentlessly destroy all the enemies of the people and not a single honest Bolshevik should be allowed to be harmed but a struggle against slanderers to be conducted.
-WORLD WAR II – KHRUSHCHEV TAKES OVER STALIN
During the 2nd World War, Nikita Khrushchev organized troops to fight against Nazi Germany in the Ukraine and Stalingrad. Ukraine’s industry has been destroyed agriculture face a substantial shortage. The war years of 1944 and 1945 saw the poorest harvest. Knowing that Stalin had huge quantities of grains from Ukraine, Stalin gave only a limited food aid after Khrushchev made numerous attempts requesting for food and when it went out unnoticed Khrushchev himself filed a case in person. However, this situation brought Khrushchev’s political stand to its downfall, and was removed as the political leader.
Nikita Khrushchev’s final years in Ukraine was very peaceful with industries recovering. He helped Ukraine rebuild its devastated countryside and saw well than expected harvest in 1948. Khrushchev implemented more policies that encouraged the collectivization and degraded private farms. Due to conflicts between the peasants and private farm holders, Khrushchev introduced the idea of ‘agro-town’. Instead of living in villages close to the farm, they moved out to larger towns far away which offered municipal offers. The one and only such town Khrushchev completed was dedicated to Stalin as his 70th birthday present.
On March 1st, 1953, Stalin suffered a massive stroke after getting up from sleep and on 6th March Stalin died. Even when the doctors treated Stalin, Khrushchev and his members were in deep conversation about forming a new government. Nikita Khrushchev positioned himself as the new possible successor. After a period of 6 months, he became the leader of the Communist Party and one of the most righteous people in USSR. In the beginning, Nikita Khrushchev and other highly ranked members rule Ukraine through a form of collective leadership. But in 1955 the ouster of Premier Georgi Malenkov was organized and replaced him with an ally, Nikolai Bulganin. Khrushchev foiled a coup attempt led by Malenkov and took over the premiership in following March.
-DE-STALINIZATION PROCESS BY KHRUSHCHEV
The loyal Stalinist, Nikita Khrushchev once gave a long speech in February 1956 criticizing about Stalin about arresting and deporting opponent members for elevating himself above the party and for incompetent wartime leadership among things. This withering incomplete indictment of Stalin was supposed to be kept as a secret. However, in that June, the U.S. State Department released the complete text. Nikita Khrushchev made minor attempts to rehabilitate Stalin’s image, but he switched the course when the city of Stalingrad was renamed, and the remains of Stalin was removed from Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square in 1961.
Nikita Khrushchev’s so-called ‘secret speech’ lead to the protests to the streets in the Soviet regions of Poland and Hungary. The Polish Revolt was fairly resolved by peaceful means while the Hungarian Revolt was fiercely suppressed with tanks and troops. Around 2500 Hungarians were killed and about 13000 were seriously injured. Many fled while the caught were arrested and deported. Khrushchev diminished the power of Soviet Union’s feared secret police, releasing many political prisoners, relaxed the artistic censorship, opened the country widely to foreign visitors and inaugurated the space age in 1957 with the launch of the Sputnik satellite, which hit the moon two years later and in 1961 Soviet Union Yuri A. Gagarin became the first man in space. Nikita Khrushchev also worked for increasing agricultural production and to raise the betterment of the standards of the living in Ukraine.
-KHRUSHCHEV’S RELATIONSHIP WITH FOREIGN LEADERS
Nikita Khrushchev faced a complicated relationship with the West. As a strong believer in communism, he nonetheless preferred communal harmonization with capitalist countries. He even visited the United States which deteriorated the relationship between the two superpowers. The following year Khrushchev gave approval for the construction of the Berlin Wall in order to intrude the East Germans from fleeing to capitalist West Germany. Cold War tensions reached its peak in October 1962 when the States found Soviet nuclear missiles stationed in Cuba. The world faced to be on the brink of nuclear conflict, but, after a 13-day standoff, Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the weapons. In return the then President John F. Kennedy publicly consented not to attack Cuba. America also privately agreed to remove the American nuclear weapons out of Turkey. In 1963 the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union negotiated a partial nuclear test ban.
One of the sharpest thorns in Khrushchev’s side was from his fellow communist Mao Zeadong, the leader of China. The two parties engaged in increasingly vindictive words of war, with Nikita Khrushchev stating Mao as a “left revisionist” who failed to comprehend the modern warfare, while on the other hand, the Chinese criticized Khrushchev as a “psalm-singing buffoon” who underestimated the nature of Western Imperialism.
-KHRUSHCHEV’S FALL FROM POWER
The flaws with China and the shortage of food over the USSR washed away Nikita Khrushchev’s legitimacy in the eyes of other high-ranking officials of the Soviet, who were completely bothered by what they saw as his erratic tendency to undercut their authority. Khrushchev was called back from vacation and was forced to resign as both premier and head of the Communist Party in October 1964. Nikita Khrushchev wrote down all his memories and lived a quiet life during the remaining days. He died of heart attack on September 11, 1971. He was denied state funeral with interment in the Kremlin Wall but was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Fearing the demonstrations his death was not reported until the hours of his wake and troops surrounding his cemetery. His spirit of reforms lived on during the perestroika era of the 1980s."
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Maj Marty Hogan, one of the most famous depictions of old Nikita was of him banging his shoe at the United Nations. Did he really do it, though? Here's the story!
"Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging incident occurred during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York in 1960. During the session on 12 October, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
In 2003, American scholar William Taubman reported that he had interviewed some eyewitnesses who said that Khrushchev had brandished his shoe but not banged it. He also reported that no photographic or video records of the shoe-banging had been found. However, in his biography of Khrushchev, he wrote that he accepted that the shoe-banging had occurred. There is at least one fake photograph, where a shoe was added into an existing photograph. However, the Italian public broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana Spa (RAI) has published footage that it says shows the shoe during the incident."
"Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging incident occurred during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York in 1960. During the session on 12 October, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
In 2003, American scholar William Taubman reported that he had interviewed some eyewitnesses who said that Khrushchev had brandished his shoe but not banged it. He also reported that no photographic or video records of the shoe-banging had been found. However, in his biography of Khrushchev, he wrote that he accepted that the shoe-banging had occurred. There is at least one fake photograph, where a shoe was added into an existing photograph. However, the Italian public broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana Spa (RAI) has published footage that it says shows the shoe during the incident."
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