Khrushchev

[ kroosh-chef, -chawf, kroosh-; Russian khroo-shchyawf ]

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noun

Ni·ki·ta S(er·ge·ye·vich) [ni-, kee, -t, uh, sur-, gey, -, uh, -vich, nyi-, kyee, -t, uh, syi, r, -, gye, -y, uh, -vyich], 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.

Khrushchev

/ ˈkrʊstʃɒf; xruˈʃtʃɔf; kruːsˈtʃɒf /

noun

KhrushchevNikita Sergeyevich18941971MRussianPOLITICS: statesman Nikita Sergeyevich (niˈkitə sɪrˈɡjejɪvitʃ). 1894–1971, Soviet statesman; premier of the Soviet Union (1958–64). After Stalin's death he became first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953–64) and initiated a policy to remove the influence of Stalin (1956). As premier, he pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, but alienated Communist China

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Crimea was first annexed by Tsarist Russia under Catherine the Great in 1783 and largely remained part of Russia until Khrushchev's decision.

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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously banged his shoe at the United Nations, which had welcomed 16 new African states to its ranks.

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The best example may be the reign of Trofim Lysenko, who gained power over the entire scientific establishment of Soviet Russia beginning with Stalin’s regime and continuing under Nikita Khrushchev.

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Where, in words attributed to both Nikita Khrushchev and Winston Churchill, “the living would envy the dead.”

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But Putin's argument that, up to the time of Khrushchev, Crimea and much of eastern Ukraine was basically part of Russia and got folded into Ukraine under the Soviet Union, that's true, right?

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