English subtitles for clip: File:1964-10-15 Khrushchev Resigns.ogv

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Universal Newsreel
KHRUSHCHEV RESIGNS

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Voice: Ed Herlihy

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The official Russian announcement
said he resigned.

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Western diplomats think the red carpet…

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(inaudible)

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…widely-traveled Soviet leader in history.

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The Reds say ill health prompted
Khrushchev to step down.

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Observers say that
his abortive feud with Red China

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that broke apart the front of monolithic
Communism was the real reason.

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The man who clawed
and fought his way to the top,

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wooed leaders like Nasser
of the neutralist nations,

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Khrushchev probably made his greatest
impact on a strangely fascinated world,

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when he came to the United
Nations assembly in 1960

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and attempted to purge
Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

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He piled shock upon shock
when he and the Soviet delegation

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rudely interrupted speeches
by Western delegates.

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The crowds that once
cheered Khrushchev wildly

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were left in the dark
as to just what went on

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when the Central Committee
met to act on his retirement

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and then named Leonid Brezhnev
as the new leader of the Party,

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while Alexei Kosygin
took the job of premier.

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Brezhnev has lately been considered
Khrushchev's heir apparent,

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but the question remains as to
whether he had anything to do

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with hurrying his boss' departure.

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Brezhnev is known among Western diplomats
as the Red in gray flannel suit,

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a man who is expected to continue
peaceful coexistence with the West

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or trying to heal the breach with China.

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(Brezhnev speaks in Russian)

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…all our forces sacrifice to our
Soviet people, to our Lenin's Party...

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It had been indicated that Brezhnev would
be Khrushchev's successor on his death,

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but no specter of death or disgrace

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marred the scene of Khrushchev's
70th birthday party last spring.

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He seemed head of the world,
the Communist sphere at his feet.

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And his power over 220 million
Soviet citizens seemed impregnable.

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Now, for better or worse,
the Khrushchev era has come to a close.