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What series of political reforms did he implement after the death of Joseph Stalin?
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De-Stalinization
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Which of Soviet Union's republics was he the leader of?
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Ukraine
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In what war did he fight as a lieutenant general?
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World War II
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What did he rename the city of Stalingrad to?
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Volgograd
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In what country did he position nuclear weapons - which triggered a crisis in 1962?
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Cuba
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Who was the first human ever in the space?
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Yuri Gagarin
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What symbolic structure did he approve to be constructed in 1961?
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Berlin Wall
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What country revolted against the Soviet Union in 1956 - but was brutally suppressed?
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Hungary
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What phrase did he use while addressing Western ambassadors in Moscow in 1956?
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We will bury you
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What was the name of the report he made about criticising the reign of Stalin?
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Secret Speech
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Who did he organize an ouster of in 1955 - the supposedly successor of Stalin?
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Georgi Malenkov
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With what other communist country did he break relations between 1956–1966?
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China
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What did he famously bang on the delegate-desk in his speech at the UN General Assembly in 1960?
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His Shoe
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In what 1960 incident was an American spy plane shot down by Soviet Union?
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U-2 incident
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In what period during his reign were repression and censorship relaxed?
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Khrushchev Thaw
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What was his 1953 plan to boost Soviet Union's agricultural production?
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Virgin Lands
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What magazine named him the "Person of the Year" in 1957?
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Time Magazine
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Who succeeded him after he was forced to resign as the Soviet Union's leader?
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Leonid Brezhnev
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What actor in "Boardwalk Empire" portrayed him in the comedy "The Death of Stalin"?
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Steve Buscemi
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What medical condition did he die of in 1971?
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Heart Attack
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