“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”

Nikita Khrushchev (1894 to 1971)

Nikita Khrushchev, in full Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, was the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64) and premier of the Soviet Union (1958-64) whose policy of de-Stalinisation had widespread repercussions throughout the communist world.

In foreign affairs he pursued a policy of “peaceful coexistence” with the capitalist West.