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Khrushchev, Nikita
- A Soviet political leader of the twentieth century. Khrushchev, who was premier of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, led a campaign, called de-Stalinization , to remove the influence of the late premier Joseph Stalin from Soviet society. He urged peaceful coexistence between his country and Western nations. Within the Soviet Bloc , however, Khrushchev suppressed resistance to communist government, sending troops into Hungary in 1956. He also aided the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba . He had Soviet military missiles installed there but removed them at the insistence of the United States. ( See Cuban missile crisis .)
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Allen Dulles probably would have loved nothing more than for Nikita Khrushchev to open up a Facebook account.
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Crimea was handed over to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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In 1957 Nikita Khrushchev decreed that the Chechens could return to their ancestral homelands.
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Kennedy introduces Gromyko by telling John and Caroline that his boss, Nikita Khrushchev, gave them their dog.
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The highest echelons of the world's governments were represented, even—Jerry gulped at the realization—Nikita Khrushchev himself.
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Nikita Khrushchev should never have made those first motions of liberalization following Stalin's death.
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