"I am very glad to hear this, since I come from the Ukraine. From now on I can sleep peacefully. I will immediately telegraph my daughter in Kiev."
— Nikita Khrushchev

January 1, 1970

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Politicians from RussiaGeneral Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionPoliticians from UkraineSoviet premiersAtheists from Russia
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Khrushchev's reply when the Swedish prime minister Erlander assured him that Sweden had no intention of repeating the 1709 Battle of Poltava in eastern Ukraine between Russia and Sweden. From a Swedish-Soviet summit which began on March 30, 1956, in Moscow, as quoted in Raoul Wallenberg (1985) by Eric Sjöquist, p. 125