Word: nikita
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...comes over West Berlin, it is not likely to come over such border incidents as last week's. It will come either because basic Western rights in Germany are denied, or because Nikita Khrushchev realizes that he cannot get what he wants from the West by bluff-and decides...
...With Nikita Khrushchev's megatomic boasts and bombs still echoing around the globe, U.S. interest in survival techniques continues to mushroom. Items...
...first time, Nikita publicly named Old Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, former President of the Soviet Union, as an anti-party man who "had joined the Devil, but then apologized." The delegates applauded, and aging 80-year-old Voroshilov, sitting as an obscure member of the 41-man Congress Presidium, dutifully joined in by clapping his hands at his own condemnation. Nikita then went on to denounce Nikolai Bulganin, who was straightman in the touring company of Khrushchev and Bulganin until his 1958 demotion. Bulganin, in the audience as a delegate, seemed to wake from a slight doze at the mention...
Chou then delivered a typical harangue against the U.S., but no one was really listening. As succeeding speakers came to the stand, each was clearly casting his vote in the row between Nikita Khrushchev and China's Mao Tse-tung, the exalted twosome of Communism. One after the other, Khrushchev's Soviet comrades called down fire and brimstone on the anti-party group and defiant Albania. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, East Germany's tottering Walter Ulbricht, Hungary's Kadar, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej followed suit...
Hoxha has since exterminated or imprisoned about 3% of his fellow countrymen, and has become brash enough to take on Nikita Khrushchev himself. This year he kicked out all Soviet military missions and closed down the Russian submarine base at Valona. The Russians are now replaced by Red Chinese, who seem to represent the kind of an ally Albanians like best-one that is 3,000 miles away...