On this day, September 13, 1953 Nikita Khrushchev was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Stalin ruled from 1924 to 1953. Georgy Malenkov succeeded Stalin for a brief period before Khrushchev took the top job. He was removed as Soviet leader in 1964 when Leonid Brezhnev replaced him.
Khrushchev introduced a number of reforms and undid the cult of Stalin.
He was the Soviet commissar at the battle of Stalingrad.
His granddaughter Nina Khrushcheva is a strong opponent of Vladimir Putin.
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