Khrushchev biographer Tompson stated: He could be charming or vulgar, ebullient or sullen, he was given to public displays of rage (often contrived) and to soaring hyperbole in his rhetoric. But whatever he was, however, he came across, he was more human than his predecessor or even than most of his foreign counterparts, and for much of the world that was enough to make the USSR seem less mysterious or menacing.
Khrushchev biographer Tompson stated: He could be charming or vulgar ebullient or sullen, he was given to public displays of rage (often contrived) and to soaring hyperbole in his rhetoric. But whatever he was, however, he came across, he was more human than his prede,cessor or even than most of his foreign counterparts, and for much of the world that was enough to make the USSR seem less mysterious or menacing.