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Was Born
he was born in a village in what is now Russia's Kursk Oblast, near the present Ukrainian border. -
War
He accompanied Stalins troops. -
Corn
He established a corn institute in Ukraine. -
War Against Germany
The Soviet offensive initially appeared successful, but within five days the Germans had driven deep into the Soviet flanks, and the Red Army troops were in danger of being cut off. -
Beria arrested
Khrushchev had him secretly tried and killed. -
Comes to rule
He ruled from 1953 to 1964. Became ruler after Stalin's death. -
New Laws
He allowed Vladimir Dudintsev's Not by Bread Alone,[136] about an idealistic engineer opposed by rigid bureaucrats to be published. -
Chairman of the Council of MInisters
Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. -
Sight Seeing
He went to the Menezh Gallery.
