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Is this true: A reminder of what Khrushchev said more tha...

“Is this true: A reminder of what Khrushchev said more than 60 years ago...."Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you. We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not" It was September 29, 1959, when Nikita Khrushchev delivered his prediction for America at the United Nations. Remember the television coverage of him banging his shoe on the podium? At that time, just the word "communism" was feared throughout our nation. Remember this. Socialism leads to Communism How do you create a Socialist State? There are eight levels of control: 1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people 2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them. 3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty. 4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government . That way you are able to create a police state. 5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government. 6) Education - Take control of what people read, listen to and take control of what children learn in school. 7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people. 8)Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the rich with the support of the poor. WE ARE THERE!”
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There is no evidence that Nikita Khrushchev delivered a prediction about the United States falling under communism at the United Nations on September 29 1959. The quoted passage is a fabricated viral claim that has been debunked by fact‑checkers.

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history.state.gov
  • Historical Documents - Office of the Historian

    He predicted among other things that the U.S.S.R. would surpass the U.S. in per capita production by 1970, a claim which Mr. Dulles believed impossible to realize. After a brief discussion of the figures presented by Khrushchev, Mr. Dulles went on to point out the claim by Khrushchev that the ...

  • 136. Report on the Khrushchev Visit

    Of these, the following contain analyses supporting the principal conclusions reached in the present report: 1) Khrushchev’s view of the United States; 2) the Soviet correlation of forces thesis; 3) Khrushchev’s treatment of the disarmament issue; and 4) Khrushchev’s treatment of the issues of Berlin and Germany.” · The factual and analytical annexes are attached to the source text but not printed. The documentary annexes are ibid., CF 1475B.↩ ... Mikoyan’s appearance at the National Press Club on January 19 was summarized in The New York Times, January 20, 1959. For text of Kozlov’s July 2 speech at a luncheon sponsored by the Overseas Press Club and the National Press Club, see ibid., July 3, 1959.↩

  • Historical Documents - Office of the Historian

    Khrushchev spent the weekend of September 24–25 at Glen Cove. On September 30, President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, President Sukarno of Indonesia, President Abdul Gamal Nassar of the United Arab Republic, and President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia sent a letter and a joint draft resolution, both dated September 29, to the President of the General Assembly requesting “as a first urgent step” toward easing the current world tension a renewal of the recently disrupted contacts between Eisenhower and Khrushchev “so that their declared willingness to find solutions to outstanding problems by negotiation may be progressively implemented.” For texts of the letter and draft resolution, see volume XI, pages 370–371.

cia.gov
  • KHRUSHCHEV'S 'WE WILL BURY YOU'

    Browse the Collections | Advanced Search | Search Help · Welcome to the Central Intelligence Agency's Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room

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