Led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. He denounced Stalin in 1956, faced Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis and split with Mao, whose China attacked him as a 修正主义者 (revisionist).
Khrushchev confronted Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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In 1964 he told a Hungarian audience that communism should mean a better life, goulash included. China mocked this as 土豆烧牛肉 'beef stewed with potatoes' communism, and Mao poked fun at the stew in a 1965 poem.