14 Nikita Khrushchev Quotes on Politics

Nikita Khrushchev quotes on politics

1. Yes, today we have genuine Russian weather. Yesterday we had Swedish weather. I can't understand why your weather is so terrible. Maybe it is because you are immediate neighbours of NATO.

5. Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.

7. Don't you worry about the foreign minister. The foreign minister will do anything I tell him. If I say: 'take down your trousers and sit with your bare bottom on a block of ice', Gromyko will do so until further notice.

10. Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

13. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

18. 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?

19. 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.

23. Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

24. Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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28. The press is our chief ideological weapon.

29. All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

32. If I do not know everything, then I would say that you know nothing about communism; nothing except fear of it.

35. We and you ought not pull on the ends of a rope in which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.

36. Kennedy: We have enough missiles to blow you [USSR] up thirty times over. Khrushchev: We have enough to blow you up only once, but that will be enough for us.