In 1959, Nikita Krushchev, then Premier of the Soviet Union, became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. He toured the country for nearly two weeks, visiting New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and even Des Moines, Iowa. During this visit he made his infamous appearance at the United Nations, where he banged his desk with his shoe (or maybe not) and bragged that Communism would “bury the West”. EnglishRussia.com had a post yesterday with some excellent color photographs from Khrushchev’s stop in Iowa, where he admiringly visited a typical American farm. Toward the end of the post there are also a few photos of his official visit to Washington, DC. (As always with EnglishRussia posts, be aware that there are typically lots of NSFW adverts and such at the bottom of the page).
