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...DEAR NIKITA...
...what's more, Nikita, here's another bit of good news. While you were so busy over there, old godfather's boys were making fools of themselves over at the UN. That should make the old yule log blaze up bright and cheery next week. And don't worry, if you get yourself into another jam with that peace-and-good-will malarky you've been spreading around, why just drop a note to J.F.D. I'm sure he'll help you out. His address is 2100 Virginia Avenue, Washington...
...road to Mandalay, Nikita Khrushchev's voice rolled out like thunder. "They ruled you and tried to tell you it was God who sent them to rule you," he said of Burma's departed British colonizers. "The English were sitting on your necks and were robbing your people." At road stops, he made much of geography-"Our country is both European and Asiatic, and territorially it belongs more to Asia." In Maymyo, to an audience of Burmese soldiers long engaged in fighting Communist guerrillas, he thought it best to speak on disarmament...
...insistent appeal hit the Indians' ears. "Judge for yourselves who is your friend and who are your enemies." For the visitors, it was a good note to end on. Packing up the accumulated crockery of three weeks of giftgiving, and leaving behind an accumulation of promises, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin prepared to move on. There was still more work to be done in Afghanistan...
...Komsomol (Young Communist) at the age of 17, he rose to be a regimental commander in the Red army, but in the early '30s transferred to the Osoby Otdel (Special Department) of the NKVD. Sent to the Ukraine, he worked with Stalin's Ukrainian troubleshooter, Nikita Khrushchev. Together they supervised the deportation and liquidation of hundreds of thousands of peasants who resisted collectivization. After the conquest and partition of Poland, Serov was assigned to the job of eliminating "anti-Soviet elements" in the newly annexed territories. Infamous secret order No. 001223, outlining procedures to be adopted for executions...