Nikita Khruschev SCAT!
- Title:
- Nikita Khruschev SCAT!
- Alternate Title:
- Nikita Khruschev SCAT!
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Hardiman, O.
- Other Creators:
- Executive Committee of the All-Russian Monarchist Front U.S.A.
- Date:
- 1960
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2289.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2289_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 14 x 22 sheet (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- An anti-Soviet propaganda map showing Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev reaching across the Atlantic with blood-soaked hands to Cuba and South America, as he knocks over the UN building with a missile under his arm. The text verso (ID #2289.02) is a colorful and virulent attack on Kruschev and the Soviets for events from the purges of the 1930s to recent actions in Hungary, Cuba and the Congo.
Kruschev, still angry after the U2 incident in May 1960, came to the U.S. in late September to address the U.N. (and bang his shoe on a desk to show his displeasure). During his visit to New York, Kruschev stayed on the Killenworth estate in Glen Cove, Long Island, built in 1912 for George Dupont Pratt and sold to the Soviet Union in 1951 as a “retreat” for diplomats. (It is owned today by the Russian government, and was not one of the two similar retreats closed by the Obama Administration in December 2016.)
During his stay at Killenworth, Kruschev came out from time to time to talk with the press, leading to this report: “A few yards away from the iron-barred gate to the estate a group calling itself Executive Committee of the All-Russian Monarchist Front U.S.A. distributed handbills with a drawing showing a bloody handed Khrushchev pushing a missile through the U.N. building and reaching for Cuba, South America and Africa. ‘Nikita Khrushchev scat! You, dirty Red aggressor. Hands off the United States! Go to hell!’ read part of the inscription on the leaflets handed out by the emigre group.” Florence [Carolina] Morning News, Sunday, October 2, 1960, p. 23. Harrison Salisbury reported the incident somewhat more sedately: “A group of about half a dozen white Russian monarchist supporters stopped about 150 yards from the entrance to the Soviet estate. They set up an Imperial Russian flag and began handing out leaflets in support of the monarchist cause.” New York Times, Sunday, October 2, 1960, p. 35.
The signature of the mapmaker appears to read “Harooiman.” The All-Russian Monarchist Front was an organization of anti-communist White Russian emigres led by Boris Brasol and based in New York.
Much of the foregoing courtesy Micheal Buehler, Boston Rare Maps.
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