Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikita Khrushchev kept pushing his brand of consumer Communism. "We did not make a revolution so that we should live worse," he observed on the stump in Hungary. "Some people say, 'You already have one pair of trousers, and they cover everything trousers should.' To this I reply that trousers cover the sinful body, but that is not enough. Perhaps one pair of trousers suffices in the tropics. It doesn't in our country: something might freeze...
Next day, speaking at the Budapest Optical Works, Khrushchev said he had been informed that factories in the liveries of electric motors. Searching through his entourage, he spotted tall, bald Petr Shelest, first secretary of the Ukraine Communist Party. "The culprit is among us," Nikita announced sarcastically. "Here is Comrade Shelest eating Hungarian goulash while his factories fail to deliver...
...Nose for Corpses. Khrushchev displayed the same poet-and-peasant touch in dealing with Mao Tse-tung's latest assault on Moscow's "revision ism." The Chinese, said Nikita, turning ever more violent, are "complete idiots" in espousing Stalinism. "There is a tradition to carry a corpse feet first out of the house so that it will not return. We carried Stalin out this way, and nobody will ever bring him back to us." The Chinese may "like the smell of corpses," he continued, but neither Russia nor the Western powers had the nose for it. "When...
Jewish Names. Sometimes persecution takes a more malevolent form. About half of all persons sentenced to death in recent years for such crimes against the state as black marketing and embezzlement have had Jewish names. In some parts of the Soviet Union, notably in Nikita Khrushchev's Ukraine, Jews constitute about 80% of the criminals sentenced to death...
Slow Delivery. This bitter satire of Eastern Europe's consumer market is not just a product of imagination. Junketing through Hungary last week, Nikita Khrushchev seemed to dwell more on the muddles than on the marvels of the Communist economic system...