Before finishing with my memory of Krushchev, I wanted to recall for you the shoe banging incident. I don't think Mr. Kruchev was anywhere near as dangerous to society as Mr. Putin, because Krushchev was all talk and no action - Putin is the opposite, he is all quiet all those years, easy (they said) to talk with and get along with, and then surprises people with that quiet snake-like charm and attacks.
With Krushchev, you get what you see and hear - no real surprises from him. Mostly bluster -
As his family recalled when he came to New York to the United Nations with the famous "shoe banging incident" and took off his soft (looks like a tennis shoe without ties) and banged it on the table, then threw it) it was never retrieved that day !
Khrushchev's granddaughter
Nina L. Khrushcheva writes that, after years of embarrassed silence, her family explained their recollection of the event. According to Nina, Khrushchev was wearing new and tight shoes, so he took them off while sitting.
He started pounding the table with his fist during his angry response, and
his watch fell off. When he was picking it up, his discarded shoes caught his eye and he took the opportunity to pick one up and pound the desk with it. She also mentions that many versions of the incident have been in circulation, with various dates and occasions.
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Nina's account is very similar to that of Khrushchev's long-time interpreter
Viktor Sukhodrev, who sat with him during the event and reported that his boss pounded on his delegate-desk so hard that his watch stopped, which only infuriated him further and prompted the switch to the shoe.
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Sergei Khrushchev (Nikita's son) stated that he could not find any photo or video evidence of the incident. Both
NBC and
CBC ran a search in their archives but were unable to find a tape of the event.
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In Sergei's opinion, it would be very unlikely that Nikita Khrushchev intentionally removed his shoe.
There was little space under the desk, and the Soviet leader, being somewhat overweight, could not reach his feet.
This specific issue was addressed in 2002 by a former UN staffer, who said that Khrushchev could not have spontaneously removed his shoe at his desk but had previously lost it after a journalist stepped on it. The UN staffer then retrieved the shoe, wrapped it in a napkin, and passed it back to Khrushchev, who was unable to put it back on and had to leave it on the floor next to his desk; the same staffer also confirmed that she saw him later bang the shoe on the desk, thus lending credence to the reports by Nina Khrushcheva and Viktor Sukhodrev.
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According to German journalist
Walter Henkels, a shoe producer in
Pirmasens said he had seen a picture of the shoe in a newspaper and recognized it as being from his production. The
Federal Ministry of Economics explained that
West Germany had sent 30,000 pairs of shoes to the Soviet Union. Among them were 2,000 pairs of good low shoes, and one of them might have found its way to Khrushchev.
Here is a photo of him with the shoe in hand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident#See_also
His MARS is in 12 Aquarius, square the MC (the public place - and square Uranus (whey we saw so many public blowups....not often scheduled if at all. Usually turning his face red -
His Mars was also trine Saturn and semi-sextile Venus, Quintile the Sun. He didn't seem to mind to retired either and let the next come come in
He seemed colorful to me, as a younger woman, but not too dangerous, more like a over the top grandpa who was about to have a heart attack at any minute. I do think JFK however, was quite worried with the Cuban Missile Crisis and to ok them and him very seriously.