Nikita Khrushchev

Americans gullible communism socialism economy

"You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism — Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"The press is our chief ideological weapon."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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""Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all"

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

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"I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick."

—Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)