Troubles in the USSR...
International History
1954 - CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly and presented by Edward Murrow (watch the film Good Night and Good Luck -- a good depiction of McCarthyism in the USA) .
1956 - Soviet military suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1967 - Stalin's daughter defects to the West. Svetlana Alliluyeva is allowed to stay in Switzerland for three months before heading to the US in April 1967.
On arrival at New York, she held a press conference and astonished the world by denouncing her father's regime - much to the irritation of the Soviet leader of the time, Alexei Kosygin, who said she was a "sick person".
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