see the author. there realized that. he wanted peace around the world he was put in power. but he was the. public to him still appear to be contradictory and varied in comparison with. nikita khrushchev. his permanent. states from his. grave together with relatives and. hello dear i recognized your face. for the last seven years of his life nikita who was in political disfavor. about the truth. but there were moments ended up costing them their careers. father and grandfather had been

executed. rehabilitated names the day after i spoke at his general became to my boss and i was fired like the way. the great deal of red tape. for this monument. he had been intrigued by. the juxtaposition of. character. 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.

that memorable event took place at the exhibition. if you want to know what. it is. optimistic beatings. nikita khrushchev was in for an unpleasant surprise when he came to them to see that exhibition. in the style of so-called socialist realism he saw something in. before. aaron sneeze vesna tempted to defend his factory of freaks. it's impossible to grieve with 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 your attention to them. 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 to him that 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. compelling an elderly soviet marshal to front of him but.

only too well used to put. his ukrainian. wearing a shirt the later became something. shortly before his death. some. government body. held. ah ah. ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah.

ah ah ah see it's in working order. to dance to. mechanic. but despite that he turned into an accomplished public speaker. the 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 and. the soviet economy was. political.

thirteen years in these corrective camps even though he was the son of one of the closest associates. rule. and later found it a good. it shows episodes from the lives of the political prisoners there were named enemies of the people. who 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. the turning point came in. the twentieth congress of the communist party of the

soviet union was underway. khrushchev delivered a report revealing the scale of the political repression the took place in the. speech he puts the blame on. the country was in for a change. recent events in our country and abroad mark a break in period in the history. of. the changes the taking place behind the kremlin the needed 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 show for. removal from the red square and buried by the kremlin rule. that moment

signified a point of no return for the nation. wealthy british style. is not on. markets why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our.

diminish exhibition. crucial vilified the abstract painter thousand nine 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 his father and the u.s. vice president richard nixon. this picture shows nixon. did nixon's career and make sure i'm holding was discovered only recently this time a crucial few points are nixon. was a master at b.r. of course but my father wasn't different or for that reason nixon was deemed the victor in dad to being. the first

official visit to the united states by suv yet leader to place in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine. it was obvious that crucial for hope to make a favorable impression on americans. would be very russian people say that any good deeds should begin in the morning with 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 soviet 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 talk to americans his freewheeling attitude was a hitting aides accompanying him on his foreign tools the most difficult part was

to translate it for reasons we will show you this whatever it was this. 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 victus you called the f. was beside nikita during all his foreign visits he was the one who had to tell him . no to each time when flew into a rage. his most memorable escapade was during an address to the un general assembly in october one thousand sixty. raised by the coos of the debate. 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 it 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. cat. which. was critical of the. economic progress.

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

to go. see year to grow up. to keep the. when that didn't help the local authorities fete official papers to overstate the amount of meat milk produced local people attempted to tell the fruit but to no avail. 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 of 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 one thousand nine hundred sixty he committed suicide. destiny 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 the three metre quarters didn't tori's the subject. everybody was supposed to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary. 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 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 surface to air 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 maine and hundred sixty nikita khrushchev was shown what was left of the senior powers spy plane an international

scandal. present as an hour wanted to see me but i believe people don't have lunch where they didn't think it would have this 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 her shop so how can i be expected to receive him. 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 you know tube in 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 khrushchev was 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. no kidding president kennedy was under strong pressure from his generals and other people in his inner circle the generals who called for any media the bombing raid he said with 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 complete. 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. seem. in 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 that were riots in the town of mother to casket. self what is it a wagon factory took to the streets in protest the riot was brutally suppressed more than twenty people died. as a mass arrests followed some of the rebels were later given the death penalty still only when it came to was fully aware of that. speaking of 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 would you like hunting was one of few.

documentaries sought to highlight his hunting expeditions as much as his state visits a burled. the films were edited in such a way to show that each shot hit its target. however in one thousand nine hundred sixty four crucial for himself had become a target his closest associates were hatching a plot behind his back. i warned my father about the blog to topple him from power a month before it actually happened six a man from the k.g.b. had told me about almost soon afterwards my father went to see resort without examining urgent information. left the situation to take care of itself i mean it was he's a way of saying to his rivals do as you please but. the conspirators stripped of his powers and pensioned him off. 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 the his resignation. to business is true that he surrendered without putting up a find some mustard. realized he had no chance of winning the battle for power only the scene which was a great new tragedy for him because he's closer to. had been treating him. he was sent into what could be described as a 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. has several photos is a 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. after their meeting as they said goodbye to each other crucial for apologize to the painter for his attack on evelyn god autists at the minish gallery soon many years earlier. than when he said don't hold a grudge against me as i looked at that 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 always a catastrophic shortage of housing in the save. 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 shipped with pride he talked about how he provided thousands of people

with new homes. he always. remains a controversial figure to his death his son has lived and worked in the united states for many years in the country that is fun to overtake and. remains loyal. and he was a confirmed atheist he promised the soviet union would be rid of a priest. come here about. the debates against. his dog is still an open question.

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