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KHRUSHCHEV BANGS HIS SHOE

Soviet prime minister Nikita Khrushchev, during a General Assembly debate on colonialism on Oct. 12, 1960, claimed the right to respond to the Philippines representative who was protesting Eastern European states' lack of freedom as Soviet satellites. Khrushchev got to his feet and started pounding the table angrily. He then picked up a shoe that was under the table and banged it several times in indignation. His granddaughter later wrote that he was wearing new shoes that were tight, so he took them off while sitting. She and his interpreter said that when Khrushchev stood up, he pounded the table so hard with his fists that his watch fell off, and when he went to retrieve it, he saw the shoe and switched to banging that instead.


FILE - In this Oct. 12, 1960 file photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his desk at the United Nations with his fist during a General Assembly debate on colonialism at the UN. His wrist watch, on the desk in front of him, came off during his angry response, before he began using a shoe to pound the desk. As the meeting place for all the world¿s nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo, File)

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CHAVEZ CALLS BUSH "THE DEVIL"

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called U.S. President George W. Bush "the devil" in a fiery speech to the General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2006, making the sign of the cross in a dramatic gesture and accusing Bush of "talking as if he owned the world." The address by the leftist leader was seen as one of Chavez' boldest moves to lead an alliance of countries opposed to the United States. Referring to Bush's address to the assembly the previous day, Chavez declared: "Yesterday, the devil came here." He also called Bush a "spokesman of imperialism" who was trying "to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world."


FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2006 file photo, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes the sign of the cross during a fiery speech to the General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters. As the meeting place for all the world's nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

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NETANYAHU 'RED LINE' ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to the General Assembly on Sept. 27, 2012, held up a large, cartoonish diagram of a bomb. The bomb was divided into sections marking 70 percent and 90 percent. Netanyahu said that Iran was 70 percent of the way to enriching uranium for a nuclear weapon and urged the world to draw a clear "red line" and stop the country's nuclear program. He then drew a red line under 90 percent, asserting that the Iranians would be that far along by mid-2013 and must not be allowed to get there. Netanyahu warned that "nothing could imperil the world more than a nuclear-armed Iran" and insisted that "red lines" prevent wars.


In this Sept. 27, 2012, file photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel uses a large, cartoonish diagram of a bomb to dramatize his claim that Iran was 70 percent of the way to enriching uranium for a nuclear weapon, during his address to the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York. As the meeting place for all the world¿s nations and their leaders celebrates its 70th anniversary, that address is one many memorable moments in the history of the General Assembly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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He he, doctored image man ni...

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Nikita was incensed by the following words of Sumulong (as they appear in the official records of the 15th Session of the UN General Assembly):


My delegation, the Philippine delegation, attaches great importance to this item entitled "Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples", the allocation of which is now under discussion.

We have been a colonized country. We have passed through all the trials and tribulations of a colonized people. It took us centuries and centuries to fight, to struggle, and to win our fight for the recognition of our independence, and, therefore, it would only be consistent with our history, our experience and our aspirations as a people that we vote in favour of having this item referred to the highest possible level of the General Assembly. While this is not the occasion to discuss the substance of the item, I would like to place on record my delegation's view on the import as well as on the scope, the extent, the metes and bounds of this item. We feel this to be necessary in view of the statements made at the start of our meeting by the Premier of the Soviet Union.

It is our view that the declaration proposed by the Soviet Union should cover the inalienable right to independence not only of the peoples and territories which yet remain under the rule of Western colonial Powers, but also of the peoples of Eastern Europe and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights and which have been swallowed up, so to speak, by the Soviet Union.

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yes, it's a doctored image. how it went down in history as believable must have been started by those at the pinnacle of the advertising industry. accordingly, he banged his fist, then he picked up his shoe (according to his daughter) because it was tight. we better ask the shoe...

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