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Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 "We will bury you" (Russian: «Мы вас похороним!», romanized: "My vas pokhoronim!") is a phrase that was used by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.
"Khrushchev's speech struck a blow at the totalitarian system" – Mikhail Gorbachev's commentary on the Secret Speech from The Guardian's supplement. A Stalinist rebuttal of Khrushchev's "Secret Speech", 1956. The day Khrushchev denounced Stalin: former Reuters correspondent John Rettie recounts how he reported Khrushchev's speech to the world.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [c] [d] (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
Based on articles in Time ("We Will Bury You!", Nov. 26, 1956) and The New York Times ("Khrushchev Tirade Again Irks Envoys", Nov. 19, 1956), there were two events that weekend at which Khrushchev made anti-Western remarks to ambassadors, the first on November 17th and the second on November 18th.
Predictions of the Soviet Union's impending demise were discounted by many Western academic specialists, [7] and had little impact on mainstream Sovietology. [8] For example, Amalrik's book "was welcomed as a piece of brilliant literature in the West" but "virtually no one tended to take it at face value as a piece of political prediction."
Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna (during the meeting with John F. Kennedy). "Communism in 20 years" was a slogan put forth by Nikita Khrushchev at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1961. Khrushchev's quote from his speech at the Congress was from this phrase: "We are strictly guided by scientific calculations.
Khrushchev claimed that communist education intends to free consciousness from religious prejudices and superstitions. [8]One of the first manifestations of the campaign, as had occurred in the 1920s, was the removal of practicing believers from the teaching profession.
Khrushchev alluded to the need to draw lessons from the Chinese communes, lest other socialist countries blindly follow China's ideas of the Great Leap Forward and inflict irreparable economic and political damage. On February 7, 1959, Zhou Enlai and Khrushchev signed an agreement on economic cooperation between China and the Soviet Union in ...