Nikita Khrushchev on Face the Nation in 1957

[@mobius001]

How fascinating. It’s great to see firsthand accounts of history like this on KZbin. So many other videos present interpretations and summaries that are often so flawed and inaccurate one is left questioning the virtue of the entire platform.

[@Tacospaceman]

It’s been a while since you left this comment but it resonates even now, especially now, seeing the questions being asked by American press and political press shows how manipulative and (idk how to say this but, really just able to twist whatever answer he gives by pretending the words were phrased differently.) and it makes me understand more and more why the world hates us so much. Interesting video thank you for your input.

[@diegoargibay2287]

@@Tacospaceman the world doesn't hate US. In my opinion I think that people, specially from thirld world countries, protest against US goverment because they see and live the consequences of US government' policy (economy, security, education, etc). The people that think and reflect by themselves, out of any kind of extremes, know that US is a country full of people and not all are the same. It's important to distinguish that, which of course not always happens. Bur there's good and bad like anywhere, it's just as I said before, it's the US goverment that messes specially with the poor and the weak, not the people of the US. And all that regardless of the party that is governing. Greetings from Argentina

[@HockeyRG]

​@Tacospaceman Wait, so you don't think that the questions asked were fair and true?

[@sfelton8943]

I wonder if censorship of youtube comments was so widespread back then

[@bboucharde]

Face the Nation Staff: This is fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing this piece of history!

[@patmax9005]

Even More Now! USA PEOPLE SHOULD SEE HOW SNAKEY THERE OFFICALS HAVE ALWAYS ACTED ON THERE BEHALF

[@vinceeuropa5587]

7:40 "uh Mr. Khrushchev I too am interested in meat"

[@132indo]

hahahahhaha pause

[@ginenelafontaine8343]

What Khrushchev said in this interview is not what we heard in the U.S. from the media.

[@charla1994]

What did you hear?

[@TheNavalAviator]

@@charla1994 Probably that he's a raving maniac who's gonna nuke everyone. That's what people from back in the day told me.

[@tyqwdybijo]

@@TheNavalAviator you are a fool . Why would you take anything kruschev says as true ? Communists were just as imperialistic and genocidal and authoritarian as Nazi’s but commies in the media always put in a good word for them

[@FRANKSNAKE71]

@@TheNavalAviator Not true! Walter Cronkite and company gave a factual and objective account on the evening news. I know because I watched it and lived it

[@monsterhunter445]

@@FRANKSNAKE71 were you listening to non western Media at that time? How could you compare.

[@lumpy0100]

Thanks, Face The Nation.:) Great Show.:)

[@lumpy0100]

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[@lumpy0100]

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[@johncarpenter624]

Interesting to hear what K thought instead of only his shoe banging.

[@FRANKSNAKE71]

I was 5 years old and recall how frightened all the adults were of Russia and a nuclear war…seems we have come full circle in Feb 2022😳

[@grandmalovesmebest]

😞me too. Frank.

[@DonCarlosHormozi]

These men were journalists....not Wolf Blitzer, Megan Kelly or Fareed Zakaria.

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

Having previously only really seen Khrushchev in the "kitchen debate" and his performance at the UN, this interview really dispels the common notion that he was nothing but a crude imbecile. He was capable of articulate and sharp but calm responses, even with the interviewers trying to bait him.

[@monsterhunter445]

Because propaganda is strong in the US

[@DS-hy6ld]

I completely second that, ExVeritate. That was the extent of my familiarity with Khrushchev, as well. And while we're on the subject, if we're going to be going back to the Cold War in terms of our relationship with Russia, then I'd appreciate it if someone could resurrect the _leaders_ from the time of the Cold War period. They were infinitely more rational, and FAR more skilled in keeping the delicate balance of peace

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

@@DS-hy6ld That is true. And for the Russian leaders as well.

[@grandmalovesmebest]

Russian leaders, no matter what they might be, are certainly brilliant men w European manners.

[@grandmalovesmebest]

@@DS-hy6ld you got it, DS. However, the ppl in the countries have changed too. Today's folks might not respond to the peacemaking efforts of the former leaders.

[@grandmalovesmebest]

Thanks for this. So interesting to see former leaders and listen to what their concerns were and what they had planned for the future

[@paulmark9887]

Спасибо огромное за это видео!

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Thank you for this historic interview with Nikita Khrushchev of Russia (then the U.S.S.R.). Interesting to see his thoughts about the U.S. prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962. Of course, he came to the U.S. for the Kitchen Cabinet meeting of 1959 with then-V.P. Nixon. Obviously, people were nervous about the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia and fears about a nuclear attack on American soil. I feel that the shooting down of the Air Force fighter jet flown by Gary Francis Powers, who was taken hostage by the Russian military, was one of the factors that heightened anxieties between the two countries.

[@brianrunyon266]

Very fascinating stuff here.

[@elitist3447]

I swear that is the shittiest translator ever lol.

[@JohnDoe-ef3nv]

how u know

[@f.treadwell3358]

Khrushchev , while still authoritarian , revealed Stalin to be an awful torturer and mass murderer to the communist party . Khrushchev freed thousands of political prisoners , opened diplomatic and cultural relations with the west . He also softened up censorship somewhat . He was replaced by Brezhnev in 1964 because those in power in the communist party thought he was too much of a reformer

[@neothegsd7292]

True but if the bar was Stalin or Beria, then the alternative had to be better. You didn't cite his behavior in Ukraine though.

[@batzorigvaanchig6358]

Krushchev was a coward who opposed many of stalin's democratization and de-bureaucratization reforms especially in the drawing up of the 1936 constitution like the allowing of multi-candidate elections. He launched a coup after Stalin died to rid the leadership of communists and then implemented a social imperialist economic model and started the exploitation of other countries in the Soviet bloc. The one good thing he did was implement a sort of term limit for certain types of cadres, but the vast majority only contributed to bureaucratic ossification. He was also deeply disrespectful for native peoples in the USSR and deeply unscientific in his economic approach, attempting to compare a developing nation to the US and disregarding the conditions and people of Kazakhstan and Siberia in his "virgin lands" campaign.

[@f.treadwell3358]

@@batzorigvaanchig6358 your crazy , Stalin was a ruthless killer of millions in people in the Soviet Union to terrorize them into totalitarian obedience

[@batzorigvaanchig6358]

@@f.treadwell3358 According to all evidence we have available to us now- even by anti-communist historians' studies, that claim is false. If you actually care about the truth and not just your own narrative, I'd be happy to provide you with some sources on Stalin's leadership and Yezhov's treachery in the Purge.

[@t.c.6920]

@@f.treadwell3358 damn you have a really compelling argument (coping)

[@davidgottlieb531]

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

[@abbynormal9033]

Rubbish

[@davidgottlieb531]

@@abbynormal9033 You got that right Abby. It's never worked. Kind of like dropping Hans Delbrucks brain on the floor and substituting with another one.

[@sugatahazra930]

WE FEEL THE ABSENCE OF COMRADE LENIN EVERY MOMENT

[@katieskorner8164]

We sure do. Thank You Jesus!

[@eddihaskell]

I don't. I like living in a free market economy.

[@nick56677]

They still haven't buried that stiff

[@chesterswortham5197]

Of that murderer was back you probably be one of the first to be pruged and shot

[@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466]

2:10 Even back then the Russians had too much dignity to say....... hang on a minute.......!, our country was just flattened by germany 10 years ago and we lost 30 million citizens who are no longer around to do all this work! That's how incredibly powerful and successful the post WW2 Soviet Union was. Dragging the most primitive poor regions of Europe and west Asia and giving them a huge advancement at nation and citizen level. Kruschev damn well knew they were thriving and big time and had no qualms predicting success by any measure which they are taunted with by the very scared capitalist western establishment

[@martinliew578]

excellent

[@AmosPressley]

If you are here looking for Krushchev's "prophecy" concerning our grandchildren in the USA... a thing we are seeing come to fruition right now... you can find it at 23:23.

[@flyforce16]

Rising wealth inequality, a majority of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, corporate control of our food, water, and energy, monopolization of the media, consolidation of power in the hands of big tech, banks buying up housing, big pharma, the military-industrial complex funding our forever wars... things are getting worse for common people, and they have to in order to keep generating profits. I don't know about you, but I'm not okay with that, and I want to fight back. I think we should first all educate ourselves and realize most of us have more in common than we think.

[@robertalpy9422]

Lol! Catching up with us in any of those three things for the Soviet Union would have been impossible. It took us a century and a half of experimentation and sometimes complete societal changes that had to be mandated by the department of agriculture and forcefully enforced to this day by the federal government. It is not easy to weed out small holders over time and adjust bank loan policies to favor the farmers who were smart enough and had the ability to get a loan to buy the expensive farm equipment to make the farming of grains profitable when it becomes more and more inexpensive on the market due to combine and machine heavy farming. Even when we did it all by horse power we were the breadbasket of the earth. Eventually we had to subsidize our farmers and ask them not to grow simply so we didn't cause farmers in countries we are allied to into bankruptcy because we are able to flood the market with cheap grain.

[@ManicMovesDrowsyDreams]

Would have been great if Stalin lived long enough to have been on a TV interview. Thanks.

[@Albert-Arthur-Wison225]

He was periodically interviewed by foreigners rather frequently, between 1930 and 1940 particularly,..yes, it would’ve been mesmerizing, but, he would’ve been at least 80, or older, if he’d lived into the television age…

[@stuartwray6175]

Stalin died in 1953, I think. This is 1957 - a relatively short gap.

[@mgoldman60]

John Reed got a mention. Wonder if Warren Beatty was watching!

[@Ryan-wu1oi]

Omg!! We are starting to live under socialism, he was right!

[@alexzhangdragonn3438]

Are you kidding right?

[@Steve2Carla]

@Kminer 303 Seems like we are not heading at all towards communism. We're the last "1st world" country to not have healthcare as a human right. The rich get richer by trillions every year. WTF are you talking about?

[@hottakeco-op2510]

You may think you know something about history but no your just repeating talking points you've heard. Absolutely no evidence that the US is moving towards socialism. Just the opposite we are entering into a new phase of capitalism (exemplified by the bezos and musks of the world) combined with a dottering government class (both parties) that is more concerned with lining their pockets than anything else.

[@nick56677]

Socialism is only bad if the poor get it. Problem is there is socialism, but it's socialism for the rich, they r the ones benefiting from it.

[@FRANKSNAKE71]

Newsflash! America has been a social democracy for generations. Social security, airports, highways, schools, EMS systems are all examples of socialism. We have a Capitalistic economy and a social society. It’s all good and works well (except we don’t have Universal Healthcare…)

[@frankhernandez6524]

This guy sounds like the same people of today that talk about eating bugs or fake meat.

[@amafirenze-vi1uh]

"HOW could Russia reach the american production of meat, milk and butter?" "I will reach it in three-four years" That's the way he was answering.😊

[@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466]

?

[@mgoldman60]

We don’t think the Russians/Sovs have ever caught up to the US in food production.

[@peterkiburio8323]

The short little nikita

[@tharealmikezee3165]

Oh talking about jamming shortwave broadcasts from VOA/Voice of America. I'm really into shortwave they're still.around. I hear em from Madagascar...ACTUALLY remember that US made Russian stations register as "foreign agent"...something like that I forget! So then Russia did the same for VOA. During Donald Duck's Presidency. SW radio is friggin awesome it's slowly dying out 😪

[@grandmalovesmebest]

Forgot about shortwave. Weren't those the devices that sent msgs to us from our soldier friends in vietnam?

[@zacfootball]

i dont want it in English

[@dompit9535]

Jesus can these nerds ask something else than questions about war weapons and atomic bombs lmao

[@rayesgoga280]

51:18

[@regalecusglesne3022]

from what i understand, kruschev was a fairly idealistic man that genuinely wanted for the conflicts with americans to end, but he was hotheaded and didn't tolerate the aggressiveness of american imperialism. that prompted him to become the exact opposite, a loud mouthed tyrant that threatened the world of a new world war. i think he was a very insecure man.

[@2Be4Peace]

I don't think he was insecure, I think he was fed up with the oppression, and what else can you do but threaten such an aggressor who will not leave you alone. If you are cornered by a bully you are not insecure if you yell back, you are tired of being beat up on.

[@jameswesson7372]

Can a cow have twins?😂

[@TheAmerican1963]

1956, Nikita, 1956.................... LOL

[@clubprojects6923]

He sounds so reasonable. And consider the tragedy of the Cold War. What if Pavel Sukhoi had been taked with building cars? Lookout Milan.

[@johnzeszutko5661]

Yes Khrushchev made our beloved President Kennedy into a fool.

[@robertrichard6107]

No he didn't.

[@grandmalovesmebest]

Nakita saved all our butts by NOT being conned into nuclear war by an over zealous Kennedy!

[@chrisamon80]

Nikita Khrushchev speaks no English. He speaks Russian from the Soviet Union.

[@nemo-nb3gh]

I wish the covid-19 cases and deaths were given to us per capita meaning per 100,000 persons . And we had a comparative statistical data analysis to other types of morbidity and deaths(other than covid-19) per capita over this 4 month period.

[@UnknownMoses]

You will take the data you are given and believe what you are told. That is the view of the current media and the democrat governors and senators.

[@LordTalax]

All the problems in the world and they are going on about cattle and agriculture for 10+ min

[@robertrichard6107]

Kruschev went to a farm in Iowa with Nixon, and loved it, loved corn.

[@jonraybon8582]

Food supply isn’t important? Personally, I could do with a divided Berlin over starving to death. In all seriousness, asking him agricultural questions was to put Khrushchev at ease for the rest of the interview by giving him something he could answer easily. You don’t start right off with nuclear war. It’s funny that every piece I’ve seen about K never mentioned this interview.. I guess showing him smart and articulate would go against the propaganda narrative that he was a boorish buffoon, just waiting on his chance to hit the red button.

[@Albert-Arthur-Wison225]

It was a very significant thing at the time. Starvation in Bengal, Europe ( Greece in particular ), China, Japan, and elsewhere was well within living memory at this time,..a scanty few years ago, both during and after World War Two,..

[@johnsullivan6182]

Khrushchev Lied

[@adamrounds1670]

Trumps favorite person!!

[@АлександрВасильков-з4о]

Мy country is crime mistake of history . I am very sorry ...

[@MIGHTYMOBTARDSATLARGE]

[@АлександрВасильков-з4о]

@Blackkk Nikkker What different ?

[@Cryax2]

@@АлександрВасильков-з4о Предатель.

[@stuartwray6175]

illegible

[@luciferdzhugashvili]

His voice over actor’s voice is awful

[@pauloliver6813]

I did not know this existed! Wonderful. I tried to be totally objective to what I was watching, but have to admit to totally subjective feelings of disappointment that the first question was so banal. As an analogy- given the opportunity to interview in 2020, say, Kim Jong-Un, do you think a Western journalist would ask, "Mr Jong-Un, do you think you will grow more wheat this year?". Embarrassing. Were they so in awe of him? Or were there only vetted questions allowed?

[@buddyrevell511]

You don't understand the context of the times. Life was very different in 1957, and agriculture was a much greater concern in geopolitics than it is today. The Green Revolution, which greatly increased ag production worldwide, didn't even begin until the 1960s. Too many people today look at the past in the context of what we know today. It's idiotic and destructive.

[@pauloliver6813]

@@buddyrevell511 Your argument does not convince me at all. Granted, food production was a major issue in 1957. But the Nuclear Arms Race, and the conventional arms race which created the "Cold War" and the perpetual fear of annhiliation were of far more social importance.

[@buddyrevell511]

@@pauloliver6813 yes, which is why figuring out which country would better be able to feed its population pointed toward who would win the cold war. Food and nukes were inextricably linked in this way. Starvation is how tens of millions of people died in the first half of the 20th century... it was no small thing.

[@robertclarkyoung9141]

The agricultural questions were designed for domestic political consumption in the United States, where the prevailing view was that Communism was less efficient than capitalism at providing staples such as meat, milk and butter. What's ironic from a modern perspective is that we now understand meat, milk, and butter to be highly unhealthy LOL.

[@dinnerwithfranklin]

I'm afraid the quality of "journalism" today is not even up to the standard of these people. Scandalous in my opinion.

[@craigtomkinson8766]

Jeremy Corbyn would have liked his job

[@herondelatorre4023]

Craig Tomkinson : But of course he would. Corbyn is already a communist in everything but name only.

[@Wurdeschongeschlachtet]

warum heißen die kinder mit Nachnamen nicht wie ihre Eltern. die kommen auch nur schnell mal in ein fremdes kinderzimmer um ein kind tot zu machen, die nessi merkt das noch, warum sie ihre echten omas und opas nie kennen lernen darf