A Message from Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva to the Women of America
In this message recorded by Radio Moscow, Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, the wife of Premier Nikita Khrushchev, appeals to the women of United States to end the cold war by full disarmament and to, "dump all weapons into the ocean."
Invoking the memory of fifty years of war she asserts that her country does not want to fight with the United States, "our people are engaged in the greatest and noblest undertaking that has ever fallen to man. During the time in twenty years we want, in the main, to build a communist society in our country, a society of plenty, full equality and happiness for all."
She mentions letters she has received from American women who are demonstrating publicly for peace and blames western countries for breaking off talks for a ban on nuclear testing.
"Allow me in closing to repeat the appeal of the Soviet government, which all the women of our country support, let us sink atom bombs along with the other weapons in the deepest part of the ocean and live without weapons as good neighbors, going about our peaceful affairs."
[A broadcast of this recording is described in a February 19th article in the New York Times.]
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 150300
Municipal archives id: T4070
