Friends, this week's Newsmaker Show with me and Brian O'Neil focuses on the hot-button topic that everyone is talking about: the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev in the USSR. Seriously, we analyze the effectiveness of Khrushchev's reign, whether or not he was a hot-head, and whether his ouster played an important role in the outcome of the Cold War.
Somewhat more au courant is our discussion of the midterm elections and whether crime or abortion will rule the day. Brian and I also cover the waning legitimacy of Columbus Day, Tulsi Gabbard's defection from the "elitist cabal" that is the modern Democratic Party, the degree to which "armageddon" really is looming, the impending coronation of Britain's King Charles III, and more!
It's an amazing show. The only thing missing, so far, is...you!
Dr Waddy from Jack: bz
ReplyDeleteback im the 50s we kids used Ks name as an epithet . He was a terribly hard man who unwisely sized up JFK as a weakling. But he had seenthe worst of war at Stalingrad and I think it caused him to back down in 62. All Brezh ev cared about was his cars.
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That's interesting, Jack. So what did the epithet signify? Generalized commie ickiness, or something more specifically Khrushchevian?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack. K ha d a forbidding appearance and the Hungarian suppression wasdiscussed inschool. Commie ertainly was a universally held abomination in the '50s, as it still should be!
ReplyDeleteAh yes, that unpleasantness in Hungary does leave a rather disagreeable taste in one's mouth, doesn't it? Khrushchev was never quite able to live that one down.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack : K did murderous extensive evil in Ukraine, at Stalin's behest, in the '30's,but we kids didnt't know about that. Russia was publicly seen as a brutal and exceedingly threatening nuclear force set on conquering us and with K as its exemplar.. It was realistic perception on our parts and our fathers defended us with the conviction that Stalinisti adventure might have been our lot.at any time. It was a good answer the thoroughness of which might have lead the lefties 'seeds for the early nrew lestists' deceitful recruitment of the early boomters. "Why look at all this unneeded military spending!
ReplyDeleteJack, that's an understandable attitude in the 50s and early 60s, before the rot of American self-recrimination had set in... K was indeed a monster -- but one who came to detest monsters, which I suppose is a form of redemption.
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