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[[Image:Kennedy khrushchev.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Khrushchev and Kennedy at the Vienna Summit in 1961.]]

[[Image:Kennedy khrushchev.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Khrushchev and Kennedy at the Vienna Summit in 1961.]]

'''Nikita Khruschev''' (1894 - 1971) became dictator over the [[Soviet Union]] when [[Joseph Stalin]] died in 1953. Khruschev denounced Stalin as soon as he died and tried to purge all memory of Stalin (“destalinization”). Khruschev repressed a freedom movement in [[Hungary]] in October 1956 and executed the Hungarian leader [[Imre Nagy]]. Khruschev replaced him with a pro-Soviet puppet. In 1960 Khruschev stopped sharing atomic bomb secrets with [[China]], and later there was some friction along their long border. He also ordered the building of the [[Berlin Wall]] in 1962.

'''Nikita Khruschev''' (1894 - 1971) became dictator over the [[Soviet Union]] when [[Joseph Stalin]] died in 1953. Khruschev denounced Stalin as soon as he died and tried to purge all memory of Stalin (“destalinization”). Khruschev repressed a freedom movement in [[Hungary]] in October 1956 and executed the Hungarian leader [[Imre Nagy]]. Khruschev replaced him with a pro-Soviet puppet. In 1960 Khruschev stopped sharing atomic bomb secrets with [[China]], and later there was some friction along their long border. He also ordered the building of the [[Berlin Wall]] in 1962.  Khruschev predicted the end of [[Christian]]ity in the Soviet Union and boasted that the last Christian would be paraded on Soviet television within a few years.  In fact, Christianity outlasted Communism.

Khrushchev met with [[President Kennedy]] during Kennedy's first year in office at the Vienne Summit of 1961.  Journalist James Reston wrote afterward,  

Khrushchev met with [[President Kennedy]] during Kennedy's first year in office at the Vienne Summit of 1961.  Journalist James Reston wrote afterward,