"My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul."
— Nikita Khrushchev

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Told to Soviet playwright Nikolay Shatrov, as quoted in William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)