Word: khrushchevism
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...first Miss Russia to win the title of Miss Universe would impress both Tsar Nicholas and Comrade Khrushchev. OXANA FEDOROVA, crowned last week in Puerto Rico, trained at the Russian police academy and boasts among her talents hand-to-hand combat and the ability to assemble a Kalashnikov rifle in a matter of seconds. Her victory caused typically gloomy Russian souls to bloom with pride, with her triumph leading all national newscasts. One report aired snippets from her school records, including such praise as "Physically in good condition. Knows the rules for maintaining and firing weapons. Knows how to keep...
...Soviet Union with an identical weapon. Ever a patriot, he had no political doubts or moral qualms about the weapon he would help to design. Those would come later, as he calculated the number of deaths and genetic mutations that could be expected over generations. Sakharov pleaded with Khrushchev to discontinue bomb testing, and wept in "unbearable bitterness, shame and humiliation" when his urgings to the leaders of the country he had helped to make a superpower were rebuffed. By the 1960s, Sakharov was both an oft-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union and an increasingly astute figure politically, moving...
...Khrushchev argued that superpowers like the United States should focus on winning allies rather than defeating enemies...
...Khrushchev also discussed his own political experience during the 1960s, when he participated in the Soviet missile and space programs...
Responding to a question about why he teaches at Brown, Khrushchev said that “Harvard never invited...