Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helsinki Club. Mindful of all this-and of Nikita Khrushchev's attacks on the Finns in 1959 for including anti-Soviet politicians in their Cabinet-Kekkonen does indeed go to great pains to avoid antagonizing the Russians. His government deplored the U.S. invasion of Cambodia but made no mention of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It torpedoed Nordek, the proposed Scandinavian common market, mainly because the Soviets were suspicious of it. Even domestic politics reflects this concern. In Finland's March elections, the Conservatives finished in second place (out of eight parties). But when a five-party coalition...
During his lifetime, statues and pictures of Joseph Stalin blossomed across the length and breadth of the Soviet Union and its satellites. But after his death in 1953, the old dictator's successors ruthlessly turned against him. In a secret speech to the 20th Party Congress, Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 denounced Stalin as an egomaniac who employed mass terror and torture. Stalin was then efficiently erased from public view, and the exterior vestiges of his rule-statues, pictures, street signs -came tumbling down. Only in his native Georgia did his statues and pictures remain in place...
...bust represents another step in the creeping rehabilitation of Stalin. Following Khrushchev's speech, Stalin became a symbol for everything that was bad in the Soviet Union's past: the purges, labor camps, secret police. Now, Soviet officials explain, they seek only to come to terms with Stalin as a historical personage who, despite his shortcomings, played a crucial role in the country's recent past...
...Lately, as a correspondent in the network's Tokyo bureau, he had been spending one month out of every three in the war zone. Not reluctantly: Syvertsen had a reputation for spunk. TIME'S Rome bureau chief, James Bell, particularly remembers a time in 1963 when Nikita Khrushchev was meeting with Dean Rusk in Pitsunda on the Black Sea. "The Soviet security people tried to throw us out," Bell recalls. "We were rescued by Nikita himself, who dressed down the guards, said we were his personal guests and could do anything we liked. So George calmly walked over...
...foreign policy consequence. The hawks in Moscow can now say that the Americans occasionally go nuts. What does that mean for the SALT talks?" Bator gave two explanations of Nixon's behavior. The first he called the "Kennedy Vienna syndrome." When President Kennedy returned from his Vienna talks with Khrushchev in 1961, Bator said, he was afraid he had given Khrushchev the impression he was soft. ("Some say this is the explanation of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962." Bator now says, "but I doubt it.)" Bator said, "Maybe Nixon is also afraid of appearing weak...