A viral post on social media falsely attributes a lengthy quote predicting the adoption of communism and the gradual creation of a “socialist state” in the U.S. to former Soviet leader Nikita ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Alison Mann and Katie Speckart from the State Department’s U.S. Diplomacy Center discussed the 1959 Kitchen Debate between Vice President Nixon and ...
• There is no evidence Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev said this quote about "gullible" Americans being fed "small doses of socialism." • Similar quotes have been attributed to Khrushchev ...
An article of faith among U.S. conservatives of the Cold War era stated that the Soviets aimed to destroy America from within by promoting a program of "creeping socialism," by which they meant the ...
I recently came across a quote from former premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev dated Sept. 29,1959. How much of his quote mirrors what’s happening now in our country. Decide for yourself, ...
THE peasant face of Nikita Khrushchev, looming on this week’s cover against a symbolic background of the U.S., was painted by Bernard Safran, the son of a Russian immigrant who escaped to the U.S. in ...
In September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made an unprecedented visit to America In the fall of 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the United States ...
The eyes of the world are on Iowa as deep in the throes of the Cold War, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev makes a visit to tour its farms, claiming his nation will soon rival the state in corn ...
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Khrushchev in America 1959: A Cold War Gamble

In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev toured the United States, from Hollywood to Washington. His goal was bold—cool tensions and reshape the Cold War ...