set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, March 17, 1956", "The Times, Oct 25, 1956", "The Times, March 28, 1958", 0, 0, "The Times, Sep 13, 1971"], [0, 0, "The Times, Oct 27, 1962"]]
set gName = getat(["Khrushchev"],1)
@[]#KHRUSHCHEV DESCRIBES STALIN TERROR#INSURRECTION IN BUDAPEST: STREETFIGHTING#MR KHRUSHCHEV TAKES STALIN'S MANTLE###MOSCOW BREAKS SILENCE ON KHRUSHCHEV@[]##MR KHRUSHCHEV ORDERS SHIPS TO WAIT
Khrushchev's father was a miner in the Ukraine. Khrushchev was a radical miners' leader when he was still in his teens#Stalin's last police chief, Lavrenti Beria, described him as a 'moon-faced idiot.' After Stalin's death, Khrushchev and his colleagues had Beria shot#The profoundly evil Beria was the last senior Soviet figure to be shot. Khrushchev sent one rival to run a Siberian power station, and another as ambassador to Mongolia - but they kept their lives, which would have been unheard of under Stalin#He said of his own dismissal : 'Could anyone have dreamt of telling Stalin that he didn't suit us anymore, and suggesting that he retire? Not so much as a wet patch would have remained where he had been standing ...'#He was known as the 'kukuruznik', or maize freak. Eighty five million acres of maize were planted after he saw it on a visit to Iowa - he even grew it in his Moscow dacha - but it was ill-adapted to Russian conditions#'We were like peasants in a market,' he said of his other passion, the space programme. 'We walked round the rocket, touching it, tapping it to see if it was sturdy enough - we did everything but lick it to see how it tasted.'#When he fell out with the Chinese Communists, he described Mao Ze Dong as 'an old boot'
