New York: “Khrushchev? The one who banged a shoe?” Not again, I thought, as I was asked for the thousandth time whether I had seen pictures of the UN shoe incident.
I hadn’t, in fact, and didn’t want to. For all these years, I have been slightly embarrassed by my grandfather’s uncivilised behaviour exposed the world over. Indeed, my whole family was, so we never talked about it.
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