Welcome to an overdrive version of the Russian rulers history podcast.

Today's podcast is going to be the continuation of the memoirs from Nikita Khrushchev on what went on between

the Soviet Union and China to cause this major schism.

And this is really apropos because what we're talking about in the regular episodes is, you know, here and there part of the breakdown between the Soviet Union and China.

These were the two great communist superpowers. They had differing

views of what was going on. Khrushchev wanted to thaw the relationship in the

Cold War with the United States and the other Western powers, whereas Mount Sechtung was the exact opposite.

He wanted to antagonize them.

And he did not like the fact that Khrushchev one had done the secret speech against Joseph Stalin and

two that he was normalizing or at least trying to normalize relationships with the West.

So this podcast is on Nikita's remembrance of his first visit to P King.

Remember, they used to call it P King and now it's called Beijing. So know that there's a difference

but this we're going to go with the original of the way it used to be written.

In the first years after Stalin died, Mount Seaton treated us with friendship and respect.

When I say us, I mean the leadership formed after Stalin's death.

In 1954, the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers decided I should lead a governmental

delegation to P King.

In addition to Bulganon, who is the chairman of the Council of Ministers,

the other delegates included Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Chevronic, Minister of Culture for Zeva, Shelepin, the editor of Pravda, and Nasredinova who represented the Uzbek

people.

We were scheduled to arrive in China in time for the celebration

of the Chinese people's victory on October 1st.

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