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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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The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution.
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You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.
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Revolutions are not made for export.
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What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
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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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When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
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In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.
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If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
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Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.
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The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs 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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The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
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In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
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Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
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Freedom in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
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Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
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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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I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.
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He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
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