KHRUSHCHEV NAMED TO SECRETARIAT OF SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY
Moscow, USSR (JFK+50) On March 20, 1953, Nikita Khrushchev* is one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Five years later, Mr. Khrushchev will ascend to the Premiership of the Soviet Union and will play a major role in the Cold War. He will gain world-wide attention for his promise "We will bury you," in reference to the United States and the West along with his infamous 'shoe-banging' escapade at the United Nations in New York.
Despite all the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev would oversee a decrease in tensions as the Cold War continued and make a call for "peaceful co-existence."
*Nikita S. Khrushchev (1894-1971) was born in the Ukraine of western Russia & as a young man worked as a shepherd, factory & mine worker.
NSK served as 1st Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1953-1964 & as chairman of the Council of Ministers 1958-1964.
He said during a visit to the U.S. "(I am not) ashamed of my past because all work is worthy of respect."
JFK+50 NOTE
President John F. Kennedy met with Premier Khrushchev at the summit conference in Vienna, Austria in June 1961. JFK, NK noted was young enough to be his son. The meeting did not go well for JFK and he left Vienna saying, "It's going to be a cold winter."
