Nikita Khrushchev Quotes


Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.


Citations

Khrushchev, Nikita. Khrushchev Remembers. Translated by Strobe Talbott, Little, Brown and Company, 1970.

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The French and English, with larger numbers and more experienced troops and officers, wanted the American units to come under the command or their officers and be integrated into the allied army. However Wilson established the tradition that American troops fighting abroad most always fight as an American Army under American Command. Although resented then and into the 21st century by America’s allies who are expected to fight under American command, it is a tradition that no American major politician has seriously challenged since then.


Slogan of U. S. Food Administration during World War I. Herbert Hoover, then its Director, coined the slogan for the agency.


Hoover headed the American Food agency early in his career. In a sense, he was right. Without American Food, the Allies in Europe woul;d have collapsed, and after the war, Amerocan feed kept the peace.


From the beginning, the issue of whether the country should have a standing army or depend on the militia and the citizen soldier has been controversial. There is a , romantic American myth about the Militiamen in Colonial and Revolutionary America—the citizen soldiers who would leave their farms and rise to the military necessity of the day. However, not only were the militia very hard to muster to duty, but most actually didn’t own or have experience with firearms, and the prevailing opinion of knowledgeable military leaders from George Washington on down was that the militia were not very good soldiers. See {613015}, {613016}, {613022}, {613027}, {621987}, {621988}, {613030}, {613033}, & {613056}


Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
  • Born: April 15, 1894
  • Died: September 11, 1971
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Statesman

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began De-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a near-nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him from power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.