Word: khrushchevism
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...suckers for style as far as Soviet leaders are concerned. I remember how we had an NSC briefing on Nikita Khrushchev back when he came to power in the '50s. We were told that he was going to be a temporary man because he drank too much, wore ill-fitting clothes, spoke bad Russian and had boorish manners...
...Foster Dulles was there. Foster used to chew his cud, and he had a tic over his eye. I can see him now as he sat back and said, "But anyone who claws his way to the top in that Soviet jungle will prove formidable." As it turned out, Khrushchev was by far the most intelligent, imaginative and creative Soviet leader I've ever...
...remember that before I went to see Khrushchev in 1959, Harold Macmillan told me that the Soviet leaders want to be accepted as members of the club. That's a cheap price to pay. They should be treated with respect. But they are not affected in the least by how nicely you treat them...
...Austria. Albanian relations with Moscow are likely to remain strained, a fact that was emphasized last week when Albania rejected the Soviets' message of condolence. "We will have nothing to do with them," a spokesman for the Albanian embassy in Vienna told Reuters. Hoxha broke with Moscow over Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization drive in the early 1960s. He later accepted $5 billion in economic assistance from China, but that relationship soured in 1972 over improved relations between China...
...Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Since then, every U.S. President has held a summit with his Soviet counterpart. Some have been successful: at the 1972 Nixon-Brezhnev conference, the two leaders signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, initiating a brief era of detente. Others have been less so: Nikita Khrushchev decided that John Kennedy would be a pushover after meeting him in Vienna in 1961 and a year later began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba; just six months after Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev embraced in Vienna in 1979, Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan. Summitry is obviously a risky venture...