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Soviet Boss Nikita Khrushchev, in Birmingham, England: "Special stress is now being laid on ballistic missiles. We can compete there too. I am certain that we shall quite soon have a ballistic missile with a hydrogen bomb that can fall anywhere in the world...
Five days of chilling British indifference had made their smiles sickly and their tempers short. Last week, while Premier Nikolai Bulganin kept up a covering barrage of pleasant generalities, Nikita Khrushchev dropped all pretense of geniality, and got down to business. Comrade Khrushchev's new theme: Russia is a powerful, thriving and scientifically advanced nation, willing and able to trade profitably with the West, but strong enough to do without if necessary...
...room in the Houses of Parliament, and looked forward to the kind of pleasantly informal discussion they had had with Georgy Malenkov. They knew there would be differences, but hoped these might be cordially discussed. So they planned. But they expected too much of their No. 1 guest. Churlish Nikita Khrushchev made it a night to remember...
...days it was withheld from print. Then, as the 20th congress ended, Khrushchev called his famous secret meeting in which he tearfully blabbed the whole story of Stalin's mass murders, torturings and evil motives. Nikita's reasons could be deduced: if the party was going to open that one up, he was going to be chief opener. If they intended to pin a guilt label to him, he would show that they were all equally guilty. By twice indicating in his speech that Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's most trusted collaborator, he wanted to make certain...
...busts of the dictator began falling all over the land. But it was also a warning to Khrushchev. The subsequent acknowledgment of Stalin's anti-Semitism was also a reminder of Khrushchev's work in the Ukraine. As the Central Committee began rehabilitating liquidated Red army officers, Nikita's chosen partner Bulganin suffered a severe loss of prestige. Marshal Zhukov, who had been downgraded (and all but liquidated) by top military commissar Bulganin at the high point of his great wartime victories, had an old score to settle...