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I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

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
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
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I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.
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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.
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The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.
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You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
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Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
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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
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No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.
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The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
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Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
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Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
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the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980
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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
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