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If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Nikita Khrushchev

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Nikita Khrushchev
Age: 77 †
Born: 1894
Born: April 3
Died: 1971
Died: September 11
Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Military Personnel
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
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