Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchevwas a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as 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...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth17 April 1894
CityKalinovka, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
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.
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.
Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
The living will envy the dead.
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.