Khrushchev Memoirs Excerpted for 1st Time in Soviet Publication
MOSCOW — The memoirs of former Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev, published in the West after he was ousted in 1964, are being excerpted for the first time in the Soviet press.
The weekly newspaper Arguments and Facts began publishing the excerpts Friday. The article quoted Khrushchev as saying Josef Stalin “does not trust anybody, including himself.”
Khrushchev exposed Stalin’s crimes to the Communist Party leadership in a “secret speech” in 1956 that still has not been published in the Soviet Union.
After his ouster, Khrushchev lived in obscurity outside Moscow until his death in 1971.
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