His secret speech to the CPSU Central Committee marked the beginning of the end of Stalinism, his action in the Cuban crisis brought the world to the brink of the Third World War. After Stalin's death, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev shaped the policy of the Soviet Union, in which a period of thaw and peaceful coexistence with the West entered for the first time. At the same time, in the power poker with the Kennedy administration, he was the one to resolve the biggest conflict in the context of the Cold War. The career of the Soviet politician in pictures.