Best Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
Nikita Khrushchev Quotes About Success, Life, Keep Going On, War, Government & Freedom! One of the Soviet Union’s most influential leaders, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, served as First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953 to 1964 and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. On April 15, 1894, in Kalinovka, Russia, Nikita Khrushchev was born. Khrushchev began working in a factory at fifteen after attending a local school for a few years.
In 1918 he became a member of the Communist Party and served in the Red Army during the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia. After the war, he got an advanced technical education and became an adherent of communism. While serving in the Soviet military during World War II, Khrushchev strove to expand Soviet rule over Poland and Ukraine.
The 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow was stunned when he delivered a lengthy speech criticizing Stalin’s excesses on February 24, 1956. De-Stalinization policies in Poland and Hungary led to anti-Soviet protests. Khrushchev’s dramatic views were well-known at home, with some seen as more humane and others viewed as ill-conceived. His demeanor heavily relies on the audience he spoke to during the Cold War.
Soviet leader Khrushchev had designed an ambitious plan in early 1962 to install nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. Although the deal avoidable a nuclear confrontation brought by most of the world, top Communist Party leaders considered it a loss of prestige for the Soviet Union. On October 14, 1964, the Central Committee agreed to Khrushchev’s request to resign owing to his “advanced age and ill health.” Natural causes claimed the life of Khrushchev on September 11, 1971.
Best Nikita Khrushchev Quotes
- “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
- “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “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
- “The John Birch Society is Communism’s greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “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
- “”Freedom” in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “I once said, ‘We will bury you,’ and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You’d have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we’d be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, “To hell with you.”” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “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
- “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
- “Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “If you don’t like us, don’t accept our invitations and don’t invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “No one is born a Communist… in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “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
- “When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “No one is born a Communist… in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev
- “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
