“My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.”

— Nikita Khrushchev

Told to Soviet playwright Nikolay Shatrov, as quoted in William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)

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

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