Nikita Khrushchev

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Khrushchev and Kennedy at the Vienna Summit in 1961.

Nikita Khruschev (1894 - 1971) became dictator over the Soviet Union when Joseph Stalin died in 1953. Khruschev denounced Stalin as soon as he died and tried to purge all memory of Stalin (“destalinization”). Khruschev repressed a freedom movement in Hungary in October 1956.

Khrushchev ordered Russian tanks into Budapest to fire into the apartment buildings, reducing them to rubble, entombing man, woman and child You Can Trust the Communists - To Be Communists, by Dr. Fred Schwarz

He executed the Hungarian leader Imre Nagy and replaced him with a pro-Soviet puppet. In 1960 Khruschev stopped sharing atomic bomb secrets with China, and later there was some friction along their long border. He also ordered the building of the Berlin Wall in 1962.

Khrushchev met with President Kennedy during Kennedy's first year in office at the Vienne Summit of 1961. Journalist James Reston wrote afterward,

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Kennedy went there shortly after his spectacular blunders at the Bay of Pigs, and was savaged by Khrushchev.... I had an hour alone with President Kennedy immediately after his last meeting with Khrushchev in Vienna at that time...Khrushchev had assumed, Kennedy said, that any American President who invaded Cuba without adequate preparation was inexperienced, and any president who then didn't use force to see the invasion through was weak. Kennedy admitted Khrushchev's logic on both points.

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Within one year Khrushchev tested Kennedy's resolve in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Khruschev was no friend of the Orthodox Church in Russia, greatly increasing persecution against it. In fact he predicted the end of Christianity in the Soviet Union and boasted that the last Christian would be paraded on Soviet television within a few years.^[1] In fact, Christianity outlasted Khrushchev, and even outlived Communism in the Soviet Union.

In 1964 a group led by Leonid Brezhnev arranged to strip him of power. The group persuaded the Politburo, which governed the Communist Party, to replace Khruschev with Brezhnev. Khruschev then lived out the remainder of his life under the watch of the Soviet secert police known as the KGB until his death in 1971. He managed to smuggle out his memoirs for publication in the West.

Famous Quotes

On November 18, 1956 Khrushchev said, in regard to the West, "We will bury you". This caused a great deal of consternation within the Western world during the time of the Cold War between the nuclear powers and the Soviet Union's recent stamping out of resistance in Hungary through military force. He later said he meant it economically.^[2] Others claim it was an example of mistranslation, with Khrushchev really having said "We will outlast (or outlive) you." ^[3]