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 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?'
Revolutions are not made for export.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
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 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.
provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atom bomb.
I want a car! I want a house!
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