In 1954, why did Moscow handover Crimea to Soviet Ukraine? Was the "red phone" hotline linking the Kremlin and Washington after the Cuban missile crisis an actual telephone? A new exhibition hopes to answer both questions, and more, by probing the past of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who notoriously brandished a shoe at the United Nations - and sowed the seeds of today's standoff with the West over Ukraine. Over 700 documents and objects are ...Saturday, 29 November 2014
New Exhibition Rakes Up the Past Acts of Nikita Khrushchev
In 1954, why did Moscow handover Crimea to Soviet Ukraine? Was the "red phone" hotline linking the Kremlin and Washington after the Cuban missile crisis an actual telephone? A new exhibition hopes to answer both questions, and more, by probing the past of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who notoriously brandished a shoe at the United Nations - and sowed the seeds of today's standoff with the West over Ukraine. Over 700 documents and objects are ...
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