few days ago ended with Gaddis's book. In later chapters, as it got closer to our times, it became more predictable as the story is more accommodating to American triumphalist narrative that celebrates the figures of Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, Walesa, Gorby and Deng by how it played, unlike the strain identified mediocre (détente) and Nixon and Brezhnev.
I keep staying with the figure of Nikita. Not how many killed and imprisoned, but I find it funny. Here are some of their shares in the hottest time of the Cold War:
Berlin is the testicles of the West. When you want to hear screams West, pressed under Berlin. (P 85)
Aboutsending missiles to Cuba: "Why not stick a hedgehog at Uncle Sam in the pants? (P. 89).
Once, while his visitor estadonunidense intimidated, Hubert Humphrey, he stopped to ask where was their guest. When he said Minneapolis on the map Khrushchev drew a circle with a big blue pencil and said: "No order olivdaré missiles safely leave this city." (P.84)
Facing a group of Western diplomats: "Like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you "(p. 98) Reaction
XXth Congress of the CPSU: The leader Polish party, Boleslaw Bierut, suffered a heart attack while reading the speech of Khrushchev and died shortly afterwards. (P. 120)
At his funeral Khrushchev said "I am fully confident that we will achieve a closing of ranks unprecedented both in our party and among the people about our game."
Hoping to prevent further unrest, Khrushchev ordered in July 1956 out of office the Hungarian Stalinist leader Matyas Rakosi. Rakosi told he was "sick" and needed "treatment" in Moscow. (P. 121)
His defense against the dismissal: "Does anyone even dared dream of telling Stalin that perhaps I should retire because he no longer agreed? There have been no trace of who did it. Now everything is different. The fear is gone and now we can talk as equals. "
" I am pleased that the party has reached the point of being able to control even its general secretary. You fucking you cover me and I say: You are on your right.
Under Brezhnev, Khrushchev had called members of the Central Committee of dogs that piss on the sidewalks. (p. 132)
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