“He enlarged perceptibly the scope for debate, liberalized appreciably the intellectual and cultural life of the country and proclaimed the obvious truth that, after an atomic exchange, little would distinguish the Communist ashes from the capitalist ashes.”

—  John Kenneth Galbraith

Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 8, p. 245 (on Nikita Khrushchev)

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