Nikita Khrushchev Quotes

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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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  United States, States, United

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• The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Education, Red Flags, People

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• The press is our chief ideological weapon.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Media Control, Weapons, Call Of Duty

  Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”

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• I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Grandchildren, America, Giving

  Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

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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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, Government, People

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• Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Thinking, Bridges, Rivers

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• "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Wisdom, Country, Politics

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• I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Class, Trouble, Said

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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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Men, Done

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• Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Individuality, Politics, Individualism

  Speech to secret session of Twentieth Congress of Communist Party, 25 Feb. 1956.

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• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Inspirational, Funny, Trust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Sleep, Moon, United States

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• Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Upside Down, Dangerous, Historian

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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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Differences, World, Married

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, Powerful, War

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• Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, West Berlin, Want

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• If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Survival, Packs Of Wolves, Ifs

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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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Coal, Pits, Alive

  "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.

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• Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Cuban Missile Crisis, Sides, Call Of Duty

  Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

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• The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Envy, Survivor

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• President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Running, Country, President

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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?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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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.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Men, Giving, Support

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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

  Country, Military, Medicine

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