Photo N. With. Khrushchev at a meeting with the sailors

Original picture taken during a meeting of first Secretary of the CPSU N. With. Khruschev with officers and sailors of the fleet. Size 88*140 mm. reverse side is clean. The guarantee of authenticity.

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (April 3 [15], 1894, Kalinovka, Dmitrievsky District, Kursk Province, Russian Empire — September 11, 1971, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet statesman. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1953 to 1964, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1958 to 1964. Hero of the Soviet Union, thrice Hero of Socialist Labor. The period of Khrushchev's rule is often called the "thaw": many political prisoners were released, and the activity of repression decreased significantly compared to the period of Stalin's rule. The influence of ideological censorship has decreased. The Soviet Union has achieved great success in space exploration. Active housing construction was launched. At the same time, Khrushchev's name is associated with the organization of the toughest anti-religious campaign in the post-war period, and a significant increase in punitive psychiatry, and the shooting of workers in Novocherkassk, and failures in agriculture and foreign policy. During his reign, the tension of the Cold War with the United States was at its peak. His policy of de-Stalinization led to a break with the regimes of Mao Zedong in China and Enver Hoxha in Albania, but at the same time, the People's Republic of China was provided with significant assistance in developing its own nuclear weapons, and its Soviet production technologies were partially transferred to it.