khrushchev

Hmmm, along with Khrushchev and Ulbricht in creating the concrete, so to speak, symbol of the evil empire.

But Kennedy & co chose to play a very public game of chicken over them, and fortunately for the world, Khrushchev blinked.

It is suprising how little is known about private life before khrushchev era.

Interesting that in 1954, Khrushchev moved the administration of Crimea to the Ukraine.

Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, for instance, had both seen the war first-hand -- Kennedy in a PT boat in the Pacific, Khrushchev as a political commissar in the struggle against the Germans on the Eastern Front.

You can't say Stalin's economic policies failed, as they were successful under himself, and Khrushchev majorly changed them in the same way FDR changed the US policies.

Let's remember that Castro was begging the Soviets for a nuclear strike against the US and Khrushchev had to fight off a Politburo that wanted nuclear war during the crisis.

Gorbachev of course built on Khrushchev in this regard, but it shows that what is important is the alliance and solidarity, and to the extent that non-violence is conducive to that (and it usually is) it usually is helpful.

> Khrushchev commented on the excellent IBM plant, but said that computers were very highly developed in the Soviet Union too; such things as A-bombs or the H-bomb could have never been developed in the Soviet Union if it hadn't had highly complicated and sophisticated computers.

Crimea is "Russian", it was granted from the Russian SSR to the Ukrainian SSR by Khrushchev in the 50s.

Putin is defintely taking a leaf out of Hitler's play book but it's more like "Khrushchev gave it and Putin took it back"

Khrushchev wrote, "After the first U-2 flight, Father felt the Americans must be chortling over our impotence." In addition to the U-2, Soviet air defense bagged a MiG-19, piloted by Lt.

It's not only that Crimea is massively pro-Russian, it's the fact that it was a part of Russian Federation (a part of Soviet Union back then) before it was "gifted" to Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954.

Khrushchev's leaked 1956 speech denouncing Stalin's crimes seems to be the dynamite that threw communists globally into despair for a time.

Bluff masked by bluster was part of Khrushchev's signature style.

Khrushchev and Ulbricht had unwisely created the concrete, so to speak, symbol of the evil empire, a very visible wall dividing a historic, major city.