re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Krushchev also ordered the Hungarian revolt of 1956 crushed, threatened to ‘bury’ the west, approved of the building of the Berlin Wall, and increased support of communist insurgents in several nations.

He had his good points, but IMO the bad is still sufficient to damn him in my eyes.

Krushchev was no innocent - you couldn’t be and survive under Stalin. Likewise, the Hungarian revolt was seen as an issue of survival for Moscow and if Krushchev hadn’t crushed it he’d have ended up dead in the basement of the Lubyanka prison. That said, he was still the one who found a way to back down in 1962 even though he knew it would be, eventually, the end of his time in power.

6 of one, half a dozen of the other …