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Anonymous
12th March 2003, 21:52
what you think about this former chairman of CCCP?
i think he was probably the funiest, most honest and peace loving statesman ever...

"Fish in Water. Nikita Khrushchev was not a student of Marxist theory. As peasant and sometime miner, he did not finish elementary school, did not begin serious reading until he entered an adult training class at the age of 27. Unlike Malenkov or Molotov, doctrinaire intellectual theoreticians, Khrushchev learned his Communism not out of a book but by contact. Alone among Stalin's lieutenants, he lived and spoke as a man who moves in Communism as a fish in water, oblivious of dialectical debate or moral pang. Drunk or sober, he never seemed to worry about what he said, who was listening, how it might diverge from the current line. A man in motion, he had the air of a man who never looked nervously back over his shoulder in his life. "

http://www.top-education.com/Speeches/Nikita.htm

Larissa
12th March 2003, 22:10
Dunno really what to think about him. He was ousted by Brezhnev and some Bolsheviks considered him a traitor to what Lenin and Stalin had built through the revolution. (Actually they referred to Khrushchev as a revisionist)

However, Khrushchev managed to avoid a very important war with the US (Missile crisis) and gave some freedom to countries that were part of the USSR and Stalin had oppressed for many years.

Political Suicide
12th March 2003, 22:34
#Moderation Mode

This has been moved to History.

Moved here (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=26&topic=262)