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Remember Krushehev's speech ?
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Actually, that's one I don't remember, but this 1959 speech by Nikita Khrushchev ties into the 45 communist goals read into the Congressional Record in 1963 really well.

After doing my due diligence with some "fact checking" looks like that may be an urban legend created from a combination of incidents that started in the fall of 1960 and from some remarks by Ronald Reagan in 1961. The story then got repeated as time went on.

Reuters Article
Quote:CONCLUSION
In September 1959, Nikita Khrushchev visited the U.S. and spoke before the United Nations General Assembly on the need for disarmament and an end to the Cold War.
In another address before the UN in October 1960, Khrushchev criticized the intervention in the Belgian Congo by UN forces. Later, he reportedly banged his shoe on his desk, angered by the comments of another delegate of the assembly.
No evidence confirms that Khrushchev made remarks about feeding the U.S. “doses of socialism” or about the necessary steps for constructing a socialist state. Over the years, politicians and figures on the right have fraudulently circulated these “communist rules”.

VERDICT
False claim. There is no evidence that former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made remarks about the creation of a socialist state in America to the UN General Assembly on September 29, 1959. The rules for the creation of a socialist state are also false.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .

Snopes has a more complete explanation, here's a link.

Snopes Article

I'm inclined to believe that this speech occurred if Snopes said it didn't. But it sounds highly likely that the story played out like they portray it. Not like a little McCarthy era propaganda couldn't hurt at the moment. IMO it's too bad that Joe McCarthy was maligned as an extremist and made into a pariah by the left. We could have nipped this in the bud back then, now it's probably too late.


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Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by 727Sky - 01-25-2021, 10:36 PM
RE: Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by guohua - 01-25-2021, 10:42 PM
RE: Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by xuenchen - 01-25-2021, 11:16 PM
RE: Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by guohua - 01-26-2021, 01:51 AM
RE: Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by 727Sky - 01-26-2021, 02:35 PM
RE: Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by Wallfire - 01-26-2021, 02:56 PM
RE: Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by ABNARTY - 01-27-2021, 03:07 AM
RE: Remember Krushehev's speech ? - by Michigan Swamp Buck - 01-27-2021, 02:29 PM

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