Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Oct. 12, 2024.

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Looking back over the past 75 years, there may not be a more unpredictable and mercurial character in world events than Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. His antics during the height of the Cold War are legendary.

On Oct. 12, 1960, Khrushchev protested remarks at the United Nations by pounding his shoe on his desk.

Or did he?

The alleged shoe-banging incident occurred during the 902nd meeting of the U.N. General Assembly at headquarters in New York. Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.

Since then, schola

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