Word: khrushchevism
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...caught up with the U.S. in the accumulation of weapons that would be used if the two countries ever went to war with each other. From Moscow's viewpoint, the question was given particular force by the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when John Kennedy faced down Nikita Khrushchev and forced him to remove Soviet rockets from the island. A relieved Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State, added a memorable phrase to the annals of diplomacy when he commented at the time: "We were eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked...
...smooth transfer of authority. The U.S.S.R. is a nation where supreme power changes hands only through death or coup. Vladimir Lenin's demise was hastened by an assassin's bullet. There is a lingering, but unproven, suspicion that Joseph Stalin was murdered. Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev were ignominiously ousted from office. What fate is in store for the collective leadership now ruling the U.S.S.R.? Sovietologists agree that the oldsters clustered around President Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin will merely succumb to the inexorable logic of the actuarial tables. In the 16 years of Brezhnev's rule...
...joke that Muscovites tell about their economic system involves Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, who are riding a special train. When the engine breaks down, Stalin has the crew shot. Nothing happens. After a while, Khrushchev rehabilitates the engineers. Still no movement. Finally, Brezhnev pulls down the shades and sighs, "Well, let's pretend we are moving...
...Soviet and 25% of Communist Party members are women, none occupy positions of real power, including membership in the Politburo. Even in what are considered traditionally female professions -education, health, post office, telephone and telegraph operations, and shopkeeping-the majority of managers and decision makers are men. As Nikita Khrushchev once admitted to an agricultural conference, "It turns out that it is men who do the administrating and women who do the work...
...Nikita Khrushchev denounced them as "foul-smelling armchairs with wheels," but the comrade who owns a car today treasures it as much as a Russian nobleman once valued his Fabergé eggs. The U.S.S.R. has only about 5 million cars, compared with 104 million in the U.S. The list of models available to the average Soviet citizen is small and the price high, ranging from the tiny two-door Zaporozhets ($6,000) to the large Volga sedan...