Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchevwas a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth17 April 1894
CityKalinovka, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
The living will envy the dead.
If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.
No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.
If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again.