when he was in power he descended into. saying the authors thought differently but now they realized it was a human being he wanted peace around the world he was put in power. but he was the one later to debunk his previous cult of. public as it used to him still appear to be contradictory and varied in comparison with. nikita khrushchev. states from his. grave together with relatives and friends. hello dear i recognize your face. seven years of his life nikita who

was in political disfavor. about that. but there are moments. father and grandfather had been executed. rehabilitated names day after i spoke at his general became to my boss and i was fired like away. with a great deal of red tape. for this monument. he had been intrigued by. the juxtaposition of. told me he had a mixture of different traits when i die he said it will weigh my good in. the balance. the creator of.

nine hundred sixty two that memorable event took place at the exhibition. if you want to know what sort. of mystic. nikita khrushchev was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to them to see that. he saw something he. before. the sculptor aaron sneezes vesna tempted to defend his factory of freaks. it's impossible to greet with former artists some of them disfigured people she.

was one of the young painters who raised the soviet leader. three of four paintings that were shown at the monash art gallery. just so happened the crucial after attention to them. and that's how it was. too much doom and gloom in paintings. a parody of life in them made some threatening remarks. said to me why is there so much gloom in your paintings you deserve to be sent to fell trees i said i had done my time there already then he gave me a small and warm communist pam it was i was very strong. and yes he said it looks like you have.

to front of him but. only too well used to put. his ukranian. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly before his death. some. body.

of those who have. ah ah. ah see it's in working order. from. a fool a mechanic. but despite that he turned into a complete. working class people look at us with trepidation they will learn from their own experience what people on the factory floor and working people in general are capable of if they

get rid of exploiters. says the. political. thirteen years in these corrective camps even though he was the son of one of the closest associates. and later founded a good. it shows. the political prisoners that were named enemies of the people. would lie. a huge dying to exhaustion. on top of that they had their kids back home to war.

those are the kind of emotions those builders of communism. a turning point came in . the twentieth of the communist party of the soviet union was underway. to deliver the report revealing the scale of the political repression the took place in the. speech he puts the blame. the country was in for a time of change. recent events in our country and abroad mark a break in period in the history. the changes the taking place in the kremlin the media ramifications for the entire nation. thousands of political prisoners were rehabilitated and sent home there was a notable softening of domestic policy. has gone down in history as the.

removed from the red square and buried by the kremlin wall. moment signified a point of no return for the nation. bright . sun from finest impressions.

stop totty dot com. diminish exhibition. crucial vilified the abstract painter hundred sixty two in the spring of two thousand and ten. visit a photo exhibition in featured pictures taken by american photographer has one of these captures the famous debates between. the u.s. vice president richard nixon. this picture shows nixon. did nixon's career and picture i'm holding it was discovered only recently this time. nixon. was a master of course but my father wasn't different or for that reason nixon was deemed the victor in dad to be. the

first official visit to the united states by a soviet leader took place in the one nine hundred fifty nine. it was obvious that crucial for hope to make a favorable impression on americans. to go to the russian people say that any good deeds should begin in the morning with fly out of moscow this morning and it's good to know that because of the time difference the first meeting on american soil was in the morning of this same day as you see all countries are not that far apart. it was the first time that the west's. it communist leader was a human being someone who reacted openly and sincerely to current events during his tour of the united states crucial has always ready to to americans his freewheeling attitude with the hitting aides accompanying him on his foreign tools the most

difficult part which translates in for reasons we will show you this whatever it was this. mother and what he meant was that we the socialist system we will develop our productive forces and everything else in such a way that we will open your eyes to what you have never seen before the victors who called the f. was beside nikita during all his foreign visits he was the one who had to tell him . each time when flew into a rage. his most memorable escapade was during an address to the un general assembly in october nine hundred sixty outraged by the close of the debate khrushchev protested by pounding on the desk it was so fierce that he ended up snapping the bracelet on his watch he suddenly looked at his watch

and found that it had stopped because he banged it on the table saw that he'd broken it. so that he said made me furious and i'm quoting him now so i reached down picked up my shoe and started banging on the table with my shoe. that. was critical of the. economic progress. and do it.

to be the first crucial. america. was a popular. made a public pledge to produce three. the region was supposed. to give. a man with large strong hands something. planned.

to go. see year to grow up. to keep the. when that didn't help the local authorities faked official papers to overstate the amount of meat milk produced local people attempted to tell the fruit but to no avail. because he's a nuts and sell them at the market place and down for a living nothing but starch would bring it from the field to make something looking like fritters the food production was fulfilled but. the head of the region was awarded the title of hero of socialist labor for the

outstanding economic accomplishment however the cooking of the books came to light the following year. a historian from resigned found. suffer from depression in the last months of his life. without any purpose during one of those september nine hundred sixty he committed suicide. after she's definitely more than five hundred letters of condolence came from all the soviet republics but at the same time. the one who had initiated to drive to fulfill three media quarters didn't tori's the subject. everybody was supposed to pretend that nothing ordinary had happened. the campaign calling on the nation to catch up with america and overtake it gradually faded out the economic difficulties were complicated by problems in foreign policy hundred

sixty a u.s. reconnaissance plane was brought down over the. pilot harry powers survived he confirmed during interrogation that he was working for the u.s. intelligence. in may two thousand and ten francis gary powers the son of the american pilots visited russia for the first time he saw with his own always the sophist missile system to shut down his father's plane fifty years earlier. it's a unique perspective to be here to see the type of missile that that shot my father down there is no animosity there's no bad feelings i look at it as a historic perspective one that we can learn from in may nine hundred sixty nikita khrushchev was shown what was left of the senior powers spy plane an international

scandal. president as an hour wanted to see me but i believe people don't have lunch where they didn't think a terrorist is an elementary thing you know the president of the united states has played a dirty trick on the soviet union but now he wants to dine with russia so how can i be expected to receive him for. the cold war took a new turn. orders the soviet union resumed testing its nuclear weapons the world's most powerful hydrogen bomb was developed in one thousand nine hundred sixty one it was cool. by the scientists it was twenty times as powerful as all the explosives used in world war two put together it was decided to test the bomb in october one thousand nine hundred eighty one but only a tough capacity. we

have said we have a one hundred million ton bomb it's true we're not going to set it all the reason is that if we set it off we might also have our windows shattered therefore it's not worth while. because crucial for so sure the soviet union possessed the world's most powerful weapon it helped push the world to the brink of catastrophe. he responded to the deployment of u.s. medium range nuclear missiles in turkey ordering similar soviet weapons to be shipped to cuba the news triggered panic in the white house. kim resident can and he was under strong pressure from his generals and other people in a fuse inner circle the generals who were called for any media bombing raid so he sent an intra five hundred aircraft would be enough to reach the russian missile

base in cuba to the ground but kennedy demonstrated caution he imposed a quarantine on cuba though it was closer to a complete sky. in the soviet union meanwhile all me units were put on high alert this is one of moscow's secret underground bunkers it was carefully disguise to look like an ordinary building in the event of nuclear war people in the bunkers would direct the bomb was carrying nuclear warheads. if nuclear war broke out the bunker would be sealed for the first three days in the same way as they seal submarines special power plant would supply all equipment with electricity until the enemy was destroyed. fortunately the bunker has never been used in war time. the cuban crisis was resolved in the end serviette missiles were removed from cuba and the united states promised not to pull the castro regime. over the world instead given in the face for nearly two

weeks the new phase of the arms race had a very negative effect on the soviet union's national budget in one hundred sixty two meat and dairy prices went up by an average twenty five percent the economic situation led to a riot in the town of nova to casket. self was a white infantry took to the streets in protest the riot was brutally suppressed more than twenty people died. arrests followed some of the rebels were later given the death penalty when it came to was fully aware of that. speaking at the communist party meeting he went out of his way to condone it didn't condemn it but he did not say a word of sympathy for the victims. hunting was one of the few.

documentaries to highlight his hunting expeditions as much as his state visits abroad. the films were edited in such a way to show that each shot hit its target. however in one thousand nine hundred eighty four crucial for himself had become a target his closest associates were hatching a plot behind his back. i warned my father about the blot to topple him from power a month before it actually happened to burst a man from the k.g.b. had told me about it. soon afterwards my father went to a series ordered without examining urgent information. left the situation to take care of itself which was easier way of seeing to his rival's do as you please but. the conspirators stripped of his power as. became the new general secretary of the central committee of the soviet communist party.

everyone except for close relatives cold shouldered who shelf in the first days of to his resignation. is true that he surrendered without. some mustard. realized he had no chance of winning the battle for power all the same it was a great new tragedy for him because he's close associates had been treating him. he was sent into what could be described as political exile he was given a country house near moscow. the majority of what few visitors he had were intellectuals who were sincerely unhappy to see the end of the crucial for. the was crucial guest on his seventy seventh and last birthday. when we went out for

a walk i said mr hershel could i make several drawings and take some pictures of you he said sure go ahead. as several photos are reminder of that last meeting with. nikita khrushchev died in october one thousand nine hundred seventy one. he never had a chance to see the portrait painted by toasty after their meeting as they said goodbye to each other crucial for apologize for the painter for his attack on evelyn god autists at the minish gallery soon many years earlier. in which he said we don't hold a grudge against me as i looked at it and things down there. one of the leading artists said. i was very angry at him. but i started shouting at. us and those official guys took advantage of that. it

came about. they were built with crucial because in power there was a catastrophic shortage of housing in the soviet union crucial try to resolve the problem by building. a prefab apartment blocks. because they do. but at the time they were breakthrough in housing development. then it was a rail holiday when people moved from the filth of poverty to new houses. about the end of his life. never talked about removing stalin's cult of personality in the soviet union he didn't even speak about the rehabilitation of political prisoners. he talked about how he provided thousands of people with new

homes. people. remains a controversial figure to his death he has lived in the states for many years in the country. to overtake and. remains. atheist the soviet union. priest. come here. and. is still an open question.

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