Posted on 02/22/2006 7:35:45 AM PST by libstripper
When Nikita Khrushchev died in 1971, I was still a girl, but I remember him well.
We used to visit him on the weekends on his farm at Petrovo Dalnee, about 30 miles outside of Moscow. I would work with him among the tomatoes or beehives. Although to me he was my kindly old great-grandfather, my family assured me that he was a great man, a world leader, a liberator -- someone I should be proud of.
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Nikita is still The Butcher of Budapest as John Stormer referred to him.
The article does reference that he was up to his own elbows in blood.
"Our people and our leaders share a belief that only authoritarian rule can protect the country from anarchy and disintegration. They support a ``strong'' state, in which decisions come from the top and citizens are left to tremble with respect and fear".
Khruschev was only upset because he knew that at the time of Stalin's death, he and the other Politburo members were going to be purged.
Allegedly Beria, knowing of Stalin's plans, was the one who poisoned Stalin.
It seems Nikita's granddaughter wrote this article in vain..
Let's try to recollect:
Where are Stalin's kids (descendants)?
Where are Khrushchev's kids (descendants)?
Do you feel difference?
Is this the guy and speech you were telling me about on a thread (over a year ago) that slapped the podium with his shoe and said American will be taken down without them firing a shot?
We will bury you without firing a shot - that's the guy.
Socialists in America (and around the world) are still fighting that fight.
Technically, what he said COULD be seen as an old Russian proverb that we'll see you at the grave.. There's no direct initial offensive push to what he said. This is from my studies in Russian language and so on.
I've noticed that many of the UN English translations of the time weren't entirely accurate. Especially the 'Goodbye Capitalists' speech. He was kind of a goofy guy that boasted a lot, but had very little behind it.
The sad part of the 'bury you' speech is that it was EASILY correctable. They never bothered to make it clear. That's part of the reason a big reason he lost power, and was replaced by the worse Breznev.
That must be what PhiKapmom was telling me about. Thanks.
I miss when Rush called howard dean nikita..
Did you know Stalin's plans?
If to concider your words about Beria.. you know only propaganda, therefore you have no comprehension about:
Soviet authority,
Stalin
Beria
Khrushchev
and other many thinsg...
It is sad
So tell us.
I can't imagine many living after Stalin knew of his plans. Certainly the death of Beria is a glimpse however. Too bad that has never been researched well.
I recently finished his memoirs...my God what a beast he was. But he thought of himself as a Commie savior.
Khrushchev also lost power because of his disastrous plan to try to grow wheat in the frozen tundra. As a result there were shortages of vodka, and Russians couldn't have that.
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