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

Well folks today this is where we kind of put an end to Nikita Khrushchev.

I know last week we put an end to him, but actually this time I'm going to do one more reading from his book Krousjoff remembers the last testament.

You know when I started this series on Khrushchev I kind of thought that this man was the kind of the bad guy because as I grew up as a child

Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of Russia for about six years in my early days.

And he was the man that my parents really despised.

He was the epitome of communism, the crazy communists who had destroyed my mother's homeland.

But as I start reading about him, I understand his feelings and how he looked at the problems of the Soviet Union and how I think he kind of

understood that the system was the problem, not the people.

And he also is saying this, and he's, this reading here, comes about after he's lost his power and how he feels about what's going on with Brejnev Kasegan, Podgorni and that group. He doesn't mention them by names, but it's

a pretty apparent who he's aiming as barbs at.

Under Breshnev, and you're going to hear this in the coming weeks there was a true stagnation going on in the Soviet Union during his time of 18 years from 1964 to 82.

Not for the military though, but for the consumer. So this chapter we're going to be reading is entitled, The Plite of the Consumer. So let's get to it.

When the state mismanages agriculture, the average Soviet citizen suffers.

How do we know when the state is mismanaging agriculture?

I believe the food counters more than I believe the statistics I read.

For that matter, I think the mood of the average housewife is a better indicator than the

Bureau of Statistics about the health of our economy.

As I've already said, our statisticians sometimes deliberately distort reality.

The rosy figures they publish in the newspapers can't be sold in the stores and made into soup.

What does the mood of the housewives tell us?

What do the food counters in the stores indicate about the current level

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