Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom had Moscow witnessed such a display of public affection. An exultant Nikita Khrushchev kissed both spacemen smack on the lips, followed in turn by Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and other members of the Presidium, as well as Russia's two previous cosmonauts, Ma jor Yuri Gagarin and Major Gherman Titov. As young women pelted them with flowers, the "Heavenly Twins," as the So viet press dubbed the cosmonauts, then hugged and embraced their families. The band of the Moscow garrison played the Soviet national anthem, punctuated by a 2 1 -gun salute. On the 20-mile trip from...
They exchanged greetings with Khrushchev, radioed "love and kisses" to the other Russian cosmonauts on the ground...
...heavily bearded spacemen munched watermelon and bantered with a mob of scientists, doctors and Soviet newsmen. Feeling the heat in the crowded resthouse, Popovich said, "I must admit that it was more comfortable in space." Added Nikolayev with a grin: "Yes, fewer people and less noise." Khrushchev telephoned congratulations from his Black Sea vacation spot at Yalta, told Popovich that he had seen a picture of his bushily mustached father in Pravda. "Your father curls his mustaches like Taras Bulba," said Nikita. "What a Cossack! He seems to be saying, 'Give me a horse and saber...
Until recently, the government encouraged Soviet citizens to build their own homes because of the acute housing shortage. By 1960, 31% of all living space in Soviet cities was privately owned. But building materials were in such short supply that last year Khrushchev's new Communist Party program hinted at a reversal of the home-building policy. Nikita's Utopian blue print suggested that the imminent transition from socialism to Communism would make privately owned homes unnecessary. Another reason for the switch: the regime has been increasingly plagued by embezzling public servants who found a convenient outlet...
Even before the break with Khrushchev, internal security was the strictest in the world; since then it has become an obsession. Foreign visitors must fill out forms specifying the contents of their baggage down to the number of shirts, handkerchiefs and socks they are bringing into the country. Decent blankets are so rare that they must be listed separately under "valuables." So isolated are Albanians from the outside world that they are convinced that such restrictions are the normal practice everywhere...