“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”

— Nikita Khrushchev

Comment on the construction of a bridge in Belgrade (22 August 1963), quoted in Chicago Tribune (22 August 1963) "Khrushchev Needles Peking"

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First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1894–1971

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