Nikita Khrushchev: Leader of the KGB

Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 15, 1894 in Kalinovka, Russia. He led the Soviet Union durin the cold war. Khrushchev’s rise to power came during Stalin’s bloody purges of the 1930s. During World War II Khrushchev served as a political commissar in the army, taking care of the resistance of civilians while coordinating with Stalin and top party members, and acting as political advisor during the crucial defence of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) that marked the turning point of the war. He went on to work in Ukraine, but was soon recalled to Moscow, and after Stalin’s death in 1953 he won a power struggle among the would-be successors. Khrushchev also gave the world the KGB. Established on March 13, 1954, a year after Stalin’s death, the State Security Committee known for its Russian abbreviation KGB, became one of the USSR’s most vital agencies and an internationally-known brand name.