BRACERS Record Detail for 65271

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Collection code
RA1
Class no.
650
Box no.
1.60
Filed
U.S.S.R., F-69a
Recipient(s)
BR
Sender(s)
Khrushchev, Nikita
USSR
Date
1958/03/
Enclosures/References
Translation
Form of letter
TLS
Pieces
32
Notes and topics

In Russian with an English translation.

Khrushchev responds to a letter from U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, published in the New Statesman on 8 February 1958. Dulles had called Soviet suggestions to end the arms race "Communist propaganda".

Khrushchev outlines his view of the "present international situation" and defends the history of Communism, stating that "only short-sighted people can think that the ideas of Communism can be destroyed by war."

In response to the attitudes of Dulles and others who fear a Soviet attack, Khrushchev comments "come to your senses, gentlemen—what makes you think that the Soviet Union intends to attack the Western powers? Why do you deceive your own people?"

Also present, in addition to the translated copy, are a TL(TC) and a TL(CAR).

Publication
B&R B129
Permission
Everyone
Record no.
65271
Record created
Nov 02, 2014
Record last modified
Jun 30, 2015
Created/last modified by
duncana