The hearsay started when Mr. Khrushchev travelled to New York on the top of the chilly battle. In the course of the Meeting’s common debate for Heads of State and Authorities on 12 October 1960, he indicated that he needed to make some extent of order about the way in which his counterpart from the Philippines referred to the Soviet Union.
“You won’t be able to smother the voice of the peoples,” he stated on the time.
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Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, visited the United Nations the place he addressed the 82-member Common Meeting in 1959. (file)
