1963 Meeting of Khrushchev with cultural figures
55 years ago, on March 7, 1963, at a meeting with cultural figures in the Kremlin, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev suggested that the poet Andrei Voznesensky emigrate from the country, after he declared from the podium that, like Mayakovsky, he was not a member of the Communist Party. Nikita Sergeevich further stated: “Not all Russians are those who were born on Russian soil. Many of those who were born on foreign soil have become more Russian than you. So you, then ... Yes, you are slaves!