Word: khrushchevism
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...start of a spiral back down into depression. In between, inflation and unemployment rates might be low (unbelievably so by today's standards) but so was the growth rate, at least by comparison with the Soviet Union. Maybe the U.S.S.R. really would "bury" us economically-a Nikita Khrushchev boast that was taken more seriously by Americans than it ever was by Khrushchev...
Amid this fiscal rubble, Ukrainians are eager to turn to Russia for help. And to make that rapprochement, they are looking to Kuchma, a former director of the world's largest missile factory, whose production lines once cranked out giant nuclear-delivery systems "like sausages," as Nikita Khrushchev boasted in the 1950s. The erstwhile industrialist won 52% of the vote, inflicting a shocking defeat on Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine in breaking ties with Moscow, then spent the next three years quarreling with Russia, thwarting reform and cultivating ties with the West...
...something more that night, when Kennedy's novice government still thought it would win at the Bay of Pigs, still had not encountered Nikita Khrushchev's table pounding at the Vienna summit in June. I saw a very young American awed by the romance of the high frontier. I saw him brush aside the doubts and point this nation toward great adventure...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recalled "feasting" on Spam as a girl in the war years. Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev claimed, "Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." G.I. ration or not, Supreme Commander Eisenhower got a taste and encouraged the fiction. "I ate Spam along with millions of soldiers," he claimed. Hormel glories in the tales and lets the jokes continue to roll: "The ham that didn't pass its physical. The meatball without basic training...
...reasons we left it in the first person and let him say some outrageous things was that this is his story," says Leona Schecter. After his boss Beria was purged and shot in 1953, Sudoplatov was accused of mass murders by the victorious Nikita Khrushchev and jailed for 15 years. He was eventually rehabilitated after addressing a 1982 plea to the Communist Party Central Committee mentioning his exploits in obtaining atomic information from Oppenheimer, Fermi and Bohr, among others. The committee, say the Schecters, could easily have checked every word...