Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchof (Khrushchev) (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ?????? {{IPA |/nʲiˈki.ta sʲerˈge.jeˌviʧ ˈxru.ʃʧʲof/}} {{Audio|Ru Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev.ogg|listen}}, April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

Great Patriotic War

During World War II, Khrushchev served as a political officer with the equivalent rank of Lieutenant General.

Related Topics:
World War II - Political officer - Rank - Lieutenant General

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In the months following the German invasion in 1941, Khrushchev, as a local party leader, was coordinating the defense of Ukraine, but was dismissed and recalled to Moscow after surrendering Kiev. Later, he was a political commissar at the Battle of Stalingrad and was the senior political officer in the south of the Soviet Union throughout the war time period—at Kursk, entering Kiev on liberation, and in the suppression of the Bandera nationalists of the UNO (who had earlier allied with the Nazis before fighting them in the Western Ukraine).

Related Topics:
German invasion - 1941 - Political commissar - Battle of Stalingrad - Kursk - Kiev - Bandera - UNO - Nazi - Western Ukraine

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