If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Politicians
Nikita Khrushchev
First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953-1964) and Premier (1958-1964). A coal-miner's son who rose to the top, he denounced Stalin in the 1956 Secret Speech and led de-Stalinisation. He launched Sputnik and Gagarin's flight, crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising, built the Berlin Wall (1961), and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, before being ousted by Brezhnev in 1964.
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Nikita Khrushchev's Other Quotes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Stalin showed his intolerance, his brutality, and his abuse of power. He often chose the path of repression and physical annihilation, not only against actual enemies, but also against individuals who had not committed any crimes against the Party or the Soviet state.
We will bury you!
Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
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