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Article: Nikita Khrushchev and the shoe Did he bang it?
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- July 26, 2003
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The shoe that the world thinks Khrushchev banged at the United Nations
is one of history's most iconic symbols. Ask many Westerners, and
even quite a few Russians, about the man who succeeded Stalin and
then denounced him, who ruled the Soviet Union for a decade and brought
to world to the nuclear brink in Cuba, and what they remember most
is the shoe. But it may never have happened.The celebrated shoe was
allegedly banged on Oct. 13, 1960. A New York Times correspondent,
Benjamin Welles, reported that Khrushchev was reacting to a speech
by a Philippine delegate who charged that the Soviet Union had ''swallowed
up'' Eastern Europe and ''deprived [it] of political and ...