“Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”

— Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Aug. 24, 1963, speech in Yugoslavia[citation needed]

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