Word: khrushchevism
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...regime itself is in an advanced stage of dry rot. Imagine the Soviet Union if Stalin were still alive and in charge at age 112: that is North Korea, which outsiders have mockingly dubbed "the world's last socialist theme park." It has had no Khrushchev, not even a Brezhnev, never mind a Gorbachev. It has only its founding dictator, Kim Il Sung, who is 80 and failing. "The Great Leader" has designated his son, "the Dear Leader," heir to the throne. But a succession struggle may already have begun...
...could shelter as many as 120,000 people, and included food supplies that could last up to 30 years. Quarters for top leaders were comfortably appointed, and movie theaters were built for entertainment. Some 30 miles outside Moscow in Sofrino, an underground broadcast-communications installation built during Nikita Khrushchev's tenure is now outdated and inoperative, according to Igor Malashenko, deputy director of state television and radio. "Because we don't need it anymore, it's been slowly stripped of spare parts," he says. A similar fate befell many of the tens of thousands of civilian bomb shelters built...
...debate revolves around an ironic tribute to the two states' shared history. In 1954 Nikita Khrushchev transferred the region from the Russian Federation to the Ukrainian Republic as a "gift" commemorating 300 years of Russian-Ukrainian unity. But the transfer was largely symbolic. Moscow's writ still ran in the Crimea, just as it did in the time of the Czars. Since last year, however, when Kiev started agitating for independence, Russians in Crimea launched a movement to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia...
...will never be negotiations," says Vladimir Kryzhanovsky, Ukraine's ambassador to Moscow. To negotiate, he argues, would open a Pandora's box by calling into question all the myriad treaties and border determinations made during 74 years of Soviet rule. "If we negate everything that was done under Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, then we must negate all existing borders," he says. "And that could only lead to a new world...
...Major and Boris Yeltsin by surprise. Seems they'd been up till all hours sampling a precious case of 1939 Crimean champagne. Major exclaimed at the extravagance, but Yeltsin just seemed to feel left out. Said he: "Good God! I thought all of that vintage had been drunk by Khrushchev...