The Dictator Files: Nikita Khrushchev

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What series of political reforms did he implement after the death of Joseph Stalin?

Which of Soviet Union's republics was he the leader of?

In what war did he fight as a lieutenant general?

What did he rename the city of Stalingrad to?

In what country did he position nuclear weapons - which triggered a crisis in 1962?

Who was the first human ever in the space?

What symbolic structure did he approve to be constructed in 1961?

What country revolted against the Soviet Union in 1956 - but was brutally suppressed?

What phrase did he use while addressing Western ambassadors in Moscow in 1956?

What was the name of the report he made about criticising the reign of Stalin?

Who did he organize an ouster of in 1955 - the supposedly successor of Stalin?

With what other communist country did he break relations between 1956–1966?

What did he famously bang on the delegate-desk in his speech at the
UN General Assembly in 1960?

In what 1960 incident was an American spy plane shot down by Soviet Union?

In what period during his reign were repression and censorship relaxed?

What was his 1953 plan to boost Soviet Union's agricultural production?

What magazine named him the "Person of the Year" in 1957?

Who succeeded him after he was forced to resign as the Soviet Union's leader?

What actor in "Boardwalk Empire" portrayed him in the comedy "The Death of Stalin"?

What medical condition did he die of in 1971?