Stalin showed his intolerance, his brutality, and his abuse of power. He often chose the path of repression and physical annihilation, not only against actual enemies, but also against individuals who had not committed any crimes against the Party or the Soviet state.
Сталин... показывал свою нетерпимость, грубость и злоупотребление властью... Сталин часто избирал путь репрессий и физического уничтожения не только в отношении действительных врагов, но и в отношении лиц, которые не совершали никаких преступлений против партии и Советского государства.
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Nikita Khrushchev
First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953-1964) and Premier (1958-1964). A coal-miner's son who rose to the top, he denounced Stalin in the 1956 Secret Speech and led de-Stalinisation. He launched Sputnik and Gagarin's flight, crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising, built the Berlin Wall (1961), and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, before being ousted by Brezhnev in 1964.
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