July 10 – 1963: Soviet leader Khrushchev asks WAPA members to consider membership of Outer Mongolia. The letter does not mention the reason – Soviet fears of the PRC. Romania eventually kills the idea, since it does not want to re-orient European-focused WAPA against China. #OTD スレッド
7/5 /* Didn't quite translate correctly: Khrushchev is talking here about either an Uighur state *or* a Kazakh state with Uighurs and Kazakhs from China joining those from the USSR.
Nikita Khrushchev asks his assistants to draft a document, then calls them in for a discussion. It quickly transpires he hadn't read it. Khrushchev: "I decided not to read it, because I thought if I began reading it, I'd start swearing, because it's the wrong thing."
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Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences,' Delivered at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Wilson Center Digital Archive
