Khrushchev Remembers

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ON ANTISEMITISM . . . Stalin turnéd to me and said, 'The good workers at the factory should be given clubs so they can beat the hell out of those Jews at the end of the working day.' ON GUBA I don't think America had ever faced such a real threat of destruction as at that moment. ON CHINA We took great care never to offend China until the Chinese actually started to crucify us. And when they did start to crucify us-well I'm no Jesus Christ, and I didn't have to turn the other cheek. ON KENNEDY'NIXON I joked with him that we had east the deciding bailot in his election to the Presidency over that son-of-a-bitch Richárd Nixon. When he asked me what I meant, I explained that by waiting to release tne U-2 pilot Gary Powers until after the American election, we kept Nixon from being able to claim that he could deal with the Russians; our ploy made a difference of at least half a millión votes, which gave Kennedy the edge he needed. ON STALIN'SVETLANA She said, Tve already danced, Papa,... Tovább

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ON ANTISEMITISM . . . Stalin turnéd to me and said, 'The good workers at the factory should be given clubs so they can beat the hell out of those Jews at the end of the working day.' ON GUBA I don't think America had ever faced such a real threat of destruction as at that moment. ON CHINA We took great care never to offend China until the Chinese actually started to crucify us. And when they did start to crucify us-well I'm no Jesus Christ, and I didn't have to turn the other cheek. ON KENNEDY'NIXON I joked with him that we had east the deciding bailot in his election to the Presidency over that son-of-a-bitch Richárd Nixon. When he asked me what I meant, I explained that by waiting to release tne U-2 pilot Gary Powers until after the American election, we kept Nixon from being able to claim that he could deal with the Russians; our ploy made a difference of at least half a millión votes, which gave Kennedy the edge he needed. ON STALIN'SVETLANA She said, Tve already danced, Papa, I'm tired.' With that, Stalin grabbed her by the forelock of her hair with his fist and pulled. I could see her face turning red and tears welling up in her eyes. I felt so sorry for Svetlana. He pulled harder and dragged her back onto the dance floor. ON BERIA Beria seemed to reach for his briefease which was lying behind him on the windowsill. I seized his arm to prevent him from grabbing a weapon from the briefease. We checked later and found that he had no gun, either in his briefease or in his pockets. His quiek movement had simply been a reflex action. Vissza