nikita khrushchev

     

Last Communist party chief of the U.S.S.R. to leave office without dying

Trivia about nikita khrushchev

  • On October 28, 1962 this 68-year-old world leader "blinked"
  • He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest
  • Da! This Soviet leader made the cover for 1957
  • In a 1956 speech, he said, "Whether or not you like it, history is on our side. We will bury you."
  • He became a Bolshevik in 1918 & Soviet Premier in 1958
  • He told the 20th Communist Party Congress Feb. 14, 1956 that war with capitalist imperialism was not inevitable
  • During the 1959 "Kitchen Debate" in Moscow, Nixon told this Soviet premier, "I have been insulted by experts"
  • He gave the Kennedys Pushinka, a pup of Strelka, the first Soviet dog in space
  • It's not me in the 1959 photo seen here, but it is this debatable Soviet leader
  • 1958-1964
  • This former premier of the Soviet Union was denied a state funeral when he died in 1971
  • To a group of Western ambassadors in 1956, he said "History is on our side; we will bury you"
  • Try this more-than-miffed politician seen here on for size; he had a really big shoe in 1960
  • In 1961 this world leader called pro-nuclear Margaret "The devil in the disguise of a woman"
  • This 1960s Russian premier once said, "Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army during WWII"
  • He went from peasant to party chairman & prime minister
  • Losers reported on Oct. 16, 1964 included the Yankees in the World Series & this ousted Soviet leader
  • At a reception in Moscow in 1956 he bragged to Western ambassadors, "We will bury you"
  • We didn't have the Springer show, but we watched this leader seen here have a "kitchen debate" with Nixon
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew fawns over a metal-plated case in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This beautiful humidor, sans cigars, was given to John F. Kennedy by this cranky premier when they first met in Vienna in 1961
  • Caroline Kennedy's White House pet Pushinka was a gift from this Soviet leader
  • A brief thaw in the icy chill of Soviet repression is named for this Russian leader who took power in 1953
  • On Oct. 12, 1960 he used a shoe to great effect while giving a speech to the U.N. General Assembly

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