Khrushchev Resigns! 1964/10/15

Khrushchev resigns, with Mao, Nasser, shakes fist at UN, pounds desk, Brezhnev to take over, "the red in the gray flannel suit", Brezhnev speaks (partial newsreel)

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• Khrushchev
• Mao
• Nasser
• Brezhnev

[THUD086]

There was one U.N. meeting where Khruschev took off one of his shoes and repeatedly banging it on the desk while yelling at the American delegation "we will bury you".

He was quite a character.

[RATH3RUNIQUE]

Yo, if there was one Soviet Leader I'd have a beer with, it'd be Kruschev. You jst gotta love a guy like him xD

[vitoduval]

A lot of Soviet space scientists could have gotten jobs at NASA, in fact ESA and NASA did finance their work after the USSR collapsed

[VictorLepanto]

@estoyaqui85: We'd all be in a much better place, most certainly. If the aura of nobiltiy had been knocked the communist gangster politics then, much of the foolishness of the 60s would never have happened.

[estoyaqui85]

@VictorLepanto Where would the world be if the SU have collapsed in the 1960s??

[VictorLepanto]

Krushev was planning to begin something like Gorbachev's Glasnost policy. The old party goons knew what that would mean even then. The Soviet state was born in terror & could only be sustained by terror. Once the people no longer feared the party, it was doomed. A shame, imagine where the world would be today if the Soviet Unioin collapsed some 30yrs earlier.

[chickenwretch]

This guy was Ukrainian and considered a country bumpkin amongst his colleagues. Stalin used him as his court jester and made him choke on unpeeled cucumbers. He was abrupt by all accounts and was disposed of after too many embarassing flops. Could have met all the qualifications of an Obama administration.

[richrocks95]

@THUD086 Some say what he really said during that was "We will surpass you" meaning he thought that the Soviets would prosper better than the US, rather than the Soviets literally burying them.

[CPOTSU]

@HORSE1492 i still disagree with you.

[HORSE1492]

@CPOTSU HGWT5763. 01/07/10/2011 A.D. I AM NOT GAY,IF THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE IMPLYING.NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV WAS STILL A MAN OF BRUTALITY,OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER AND A MEMBER OF THE STALIN CRIMINAL GANG AND GOD WILL PUNISH HIM FOR THAT.ILL TAKE MIKHAIL GORBACHEV OVER THAT JERK ANY DAY!

[CPOTSU]

@HORSE1492 you are a cold blooded faggot

[havee3333333]

@THUD086

It is sad that during the Cold War, the US and Soviet diplomats and politicians always tried to wage verbal wars that deteriorated relations even more.

The worst was probably Reagan and how he constantly called the USSR, "The Evil Empire". And other offensive things. And while he was saying all this, the USSR took his words seriously and feared of a Nuclear War.

They also talked about how much Reagan's philosophies was like Hitler's, and talked about how to remove him, in the Kremlin.