“You will not be able to smother the voice of the peoples,” he said at the time.Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, visited the United Nations where he addressed the 82-member General Assembly in 1959. (file)
The rumour began when Mr. Khrushchev travelled to New York at the height of the cold war. During the Assembly’s general debate for Heads of State and Government on 12 October 1960, he indicated that he wanted to make a point of order about the way his counterpart from the Philippines referred to the Soviet Union.[embedded content]