Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “We cannot expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” ~ Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) Premier of the Soviet UnionSource: Attributed to Nikita Khrushchev. Entered into Congressional Record, July 26, 1961, p. 12622 by Sen. J. Strom Thurmond, in which Ezra Taft Benson summarized his encounter with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in September 1959.