From shoe banging to Ukraine, archives comb Khrushchev past
Moscow (AFP) Nov 29, 2014 - Why did Moscow hand Crimea to Soviet Ukraine in 1954? Was the "red phone" hotline linking the Kremlin and Washington after the Cuban missile crisis an actual telephone? A new exhibition hopes to answer both questions, and more, by probing the past of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who notoriously brandished a shoe at the United Nations - and sowed the seeds of today's standoff with th ... more
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