When [[Nikita Khrushchev]] succeeded [[Joseph Stalin]] as ruler of the [[Soviet Union]], he began to try to wipe out any memory or support of Stalin in what is called "destalinization". | When [[Nikita Khrushchev]] succeeded [[Joseph Stalin]] as ruler of the [[Soviet Union]], he began to try to wipe out any memory or support of Stalin in what is called "destalinization". |