Did Khrushchev say Americans are gullible in a 1959 UN speech?
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“Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech on September 29, 1959 at the United Nations in which he said, "Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible..."”
Summary
There is no evidence that Khrushchev delivered a United Nations speech on September 29, 1959 containing the quoted remarks. Fact‑checking organizations and major news outlets have found no record of such a statement, and the claim is rated false.
Sources 76 searched
- 136. Report on the Khrushchev Visit
For text of Khrushchev’s September 27 radio and television address, see ibid., September 28, 1959.↩ · The transcript of Khrushchev’s press conference on September 27 and text of his speech at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on September 28 are printed ibid., September 28 and 29, 1959.↩
- Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
For text of Khrushchev’s speech, see U.N. doc. A/PV.869 or The New York Times, September 24, 1960. 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...
- False claim: Nikita Khrushchev 1959 quote to the United Nations General Assembly | Reuters
False claim. There is no evidence that former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made remarks about the creation of a socialist state in America to the UN General Assembly on September 29, 1959.
- False claim: Nikita Khrushchev 1959 quote to the United Nations General Assembly | Reuters
False claim. There is no evidence that former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made remarks about the creation of a socialist state in America to the UN General Assembly on September 29, 1959.
- Выступления советских и российских лидеров на Генассамблее ООН - РИА Новости, 22.09.2020
Главы СССР и России неоднократно выступали на сессиях Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН. РИА Новости, 22.09.2020
- Выступления лидеров СССР и России на Генассамблее ООН. Досье - ТАСС
За всю историю ООН главы СССР и России 11 раз выступали на заседаниях Генассамблеи: Никита Хрущев четыре раза, Владимир Путин - три, Борис Ельцин - два, Михаил Горбачев и Дмитрий Медведев по одному разу. 15-27 сентября 1959 года глава советского государства находился с официальным визитом в США.
- Transcript of Khrushchev's News Conference on His Talks With President; Soviet Premier, in a Television Address to the Nation, Explains the Red Philosophy - The New York Times
28, 1959 ... New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. ... Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Following are transcripts of questions and answers at Premier Khrushchev...
- Texts of Khrushchev Speech at National Press Club and Questions and Answers - The New York Times
Premier Khrushchev backs US-USSR civil air pact but holds it minor matter to be arranged by mins, press conf, Washington; transcript
- Как лидеры СССР и России выступали на сессиях Генассамблеи ООН - Коммерсантъ
Выступая на 14-й сессии Генассамблеи ООН, он внес на рассмотрение «Декларацию о всеобщем полном разоружении». На 15-ой, юбилейной сессии в 1960 году Никита Хрущев выступил трижды: 23 сентября, 1 и 12 октября. Самой известной речью стала последняя.
- No, Khrushchev didn’t say this about Americans 60 years ago – PolitiFact
Apart from one anecdotal claim from an individual whose story was inconsistent, there is no evidence Khrushchev said any variation of this quote. We rate this claim False. Facebook post, Oct.
- Did Nikita Khrushchev Say 'We'll Keep Feeding You Small Doses of Socialism'? | Snopes.com
Benson had cited versions of the same quote on more than one occasion prior to 1966 without claiming that Khrushchev said it in his presence. Like Ronald Reagan routinely did during the same period, Benson told audiences that the Soviet premier made the remark before, not during, his 1959 visit to the United States.
- Did Nikita Khrushchev say in a 1959 speech, ‘Your children’s children will live under communism’? – Gigafact
There is no record Khrushchev ever said this in a public speech. The Soviet leader did visit the United States, September 15-27, 1959. He was back in Moscow by September 28. A possible source for the purported quote was the first-hand recollection of Ezra Taft Benson, secretary of agriculture ...
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