SEPT 29, 1960: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoes on his desk and shouted in anger in the most chaotic episode ever seen at the United Nations on this day in 1960. He first disrupted a ...
Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev was rumoured to have banged his shoe on his delegation’s desk during a UN General Assembly meeting on 12 October 1960. Utilizing material from the UN Audiovisual ...
MOSCOW: Why did Moscow hand Crimea to Soviet Ukraine in 1954? Was the “red phone” hotline linking the Kremlin and Washington after the Cuban missile crisis an actual telephone? A new exhibition hopes ...
Adults of a certain age -- those who lived through the Cold War, specifically the era in which the Soviet Union was ruled by Nikita Khrushchev -- will remember hearing how the volatile leader demanded ...
Forty-five years ago, in October 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was dismissed as the party leader and chairman of the Soviet government. In the political lexicon, his era is dubbed as one of "subjectivism" ...
SEPT 29, 1960: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoes on his desk and shouted in anger in the most chaotic episode ever seen at the United Nations on this day in 1960. He first disrupted a ...
One of the legends of UN history is a tale that spread across the world and the decades. Did then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev remove his shoe and bang it on a desk in the UN General Assembly Hall ...
A person visits an exhibition dedicated to the former Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow on November 19, 2014. (AFP) Moscow: Why did Moscow hand Crimea to Soviet Ukraine in 1954? Was the "red ...