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
You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.
We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.
provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atom bomb.
I want a car! I want a house!
If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.
Let us not talk about using force; we are equally strong. In fact, we can swat your ass.
When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'
No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know
The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party