Former Soviet leader Khrushchev always seemed to play his cards out of the ordinary. From the secret report to the Cuban Missile Crisis, we can see Khrushchev's willful side, and because of this, Khrushchev's merits and demerits are still debated endlessly.
According to Khrushchev's personal bodyguard, AlexeiSalinikov, Khrushchev, who was regarded as the "monarch," not only had an arbitrary side, but also a simple and democratic side.
In fact, it is no accident that Khrushchev was called an "old peasant" by Stalin, and he himself did maintain the simple character of the Russian peasant. Although he was the leader of a country, Khrushchev was never far from the people, and he maintained a lifelong hobby of finding the people and pulling a family, until he stepped down.
According to records, Khrushchev often returned to his hometown of Kalinovka on his vacation. At that time, Khrushchev was not young, and according to China's age, he had reached the age of "doing what the heart wants." However, Khrushchev in the village of Kalinovka can clearly remember each neighboring face, and some of them he can even call out names.
Once, he walked up to two young girls about 25 years old and said clearly, "You're the daughter of so-and-so, right?" "One question is indeed. The surrounding entourage was amazed that Khrushchev, as the leader of a country, could maintain such a pro-people character, which was indeed commendable.
In people's minds, it seems that Khrushchev has always been arbitrary, no less than Stalin, but in his later years Khrushchev also had a democratic side.
Once Khrushchev went hunting in the mountains, but suddenly it began to rain. Khrushchev then said to his entourage, "Let's move all these tables into the house." With that, Khrushchev led by example and lifted the table. Thus, all the members of the Presidium moved their hands, which is extremely rare in the history of the Soviet Union.
Of course, democracy and simplicity are only a few times, and more often Khrushchev is constantly routine and willful.
In January 1962, Khrushchev invited the visiting Cuban leader Castro to hunt, accompanied by Brezhnev, Kosygin Mikoyan and other Soviet leaders.
At first, the atmosphere of hunting was relatively harmonious, but when it came to rise, this group of Soviet politicians disregarded the image. At the hunting ground, they actually started a "group fight", one moment Podgorny and Brezhnev put Khrushchev down, and the next they pulled Mikoyan into the play camp, which looked like a group of children.
Having had a good time, Khrushchev happily signed an agreement with Castro agreeing to deploy missiles in Cuba. This led directly to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and nearly triggered World War III.
In addition to his willful behavior at home, Khrushchev also had a good appearance at the United Nations.
On 12 October 1960, Khrushchev was invited to address the United Nations. When he heard the denigration of the speakers in the audience, he immediately stood up and protested loudly, only to be ignored by the Presidium. Khrushchev, who felt humiliated, could not bear it any longer, and got up and slammed the table with his shoes, which aroused the attention of everyone.
This bright shot was finally reported by American newspapers and quickly spread around the world. Khrushchev then became the most beautiful boy in the world at that time. Because of this, when we think of Khrushchev, we are reminded of an image of a bare head slamming the table with leather shoes.
There are many more such troubles. According to Alexei, a close bodyguard, Khrushchev was already very old at the time and had to be moderate in his diet, so the doctors made a special recipe for him.
The recipe is roughly two slices of toasted brown bread and a small jar of yogurt in the morning; vegetarian food is used at noon, and greasy food is basically not used. Tomatoes are also a must if you want to hunt.
Probably because of the recipe, Khrushchev was particularly fond of eating tomatoes for a while, so much so that he did not eat every meal of non-tomatoes. Later, it is not known who spread the rumor that eating tomatoes is not good for good health, because it will deposit a lot of salt in the body. Khrushchev happened to have a problem with salt deposition, so as soon as he heard the rumors, he quickly stopped eating tomatoes.
Later, Polyakov, who was in charge of agriculture, learned of this and persuaded Khrushchev: "Nikita (referring to Khrushchev), stop believing this rumor, eating tomatoes will not cause salt deposition." So it wasn't long before Khrushchev ate tomatoes again, a matter that for a time became a joke within the Soviet Union.
Of course, these "troubles" did not affect Khrushchev's mood, and in his view, the stability of power was the most important, and everything else was a small matter. But as everyone knows, the more things are said, the more they become true!