Nikita Khrushchev's comments...

"If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teachings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle."

(Nikita Khrushchev's comments during a reception for an East German Communist Party delegation in September, 1955.)

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September 17, 1960, No. 179, Vol. LXVII

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