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  • NAME: Nikita Khrushchev
  • OCCUPATION: World Leader
  • BIRTH DATE: April 17, 1894
  • DEATH DATE: September 11, 1971
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Kalinovka, Russia
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Moscow, Russia
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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev publicized Stalin's crimes, initiated the Cuban Missile Crisis and established a more open form of Communism in the USSR.

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Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. In a 1956 "secret speech," he discussed Stalin's crimes for the first time, starting a process called "de-Stalinization." He also visited the West, putting a smiling face on his brand of "Reform Communism." Khrushchev flinched first during the Cuban Missile Crisis and oversaw the building of the Berlin Wall.

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