Today in History - September 12, 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev elected Soviet leader

Nikita Khrushchev elected Soviet leader- September 12, 1953

Six months after the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev was elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Khrushchev was born in a Ukrainian peasant family in 1894. He worked as a mine mechanic, before joining the Soviet Communist Party in 1918. In 1953, Stalin died, and Khrushchev was contending with Georgy Malenkov for the position of first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and he won. 

In 1964, Khrushchev retired in obscurity, and he died in 1971. For more details of the story: History.com -Khrushchev

A famous quote by Khrushchev is this one: 'We will bury you.'. He was not happy with capitalism, and much like the president of our country today, he was not happy about colonialism. Some of his statements remind me of what I am hearing today, from our president. I see some similarities in their thinking.

"We will bury you!" ("Мы вас похороним!", transliterated as My vas pokhoronim!) was a phrase famously used by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.^[1][2][3]

Later, on August 24, 1963, Khrushchev remarked in his speech in Yugoslavia, "I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you,"^[5] a reference to theMarxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism", based on the concluding statement in Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto: "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable". Khrushchev repeated this Marxist thesis at a meeting with journalists in the U.S. in September 1959. However, many Americans interpreted the quote as a nuclear threat.^[6]

The actual verbal context was: "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in" ("Нравится вам или нет, но история на нашей стороне. Мы вас закопаем"). In his subsequent public speech Khrushchev declared: "[...] We must take a shovel and dig a deep grave, and bury colonialism as deep as we can".^[4] 

^{Source: Wikipedia-We_will_bury_you}