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The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

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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