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Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and de-Stalinization

On 18 November 1956, while addressing Western dignitaries at a reception in Moscow's Polish embassy, Khrushchev infamously declared, "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you ", shocking everyone present. He would later claim he had not been referring to nuclear war, but the "historically fated victory of communism over capitalism." In 1961, Khrushchev boasted that, even if the Soviet Union was currently behind the West, its housing shortage would disappear within ten years, consumer goods would be made abundant, and the "construction of a communist society" would be completed "in the main" within no more than two decades.