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==Overthrown==

==Overthrown==

By late 1964 Kremlin leaders were troubled by Khrushchev's irascible and self-contradictory behavior; he had been weakened by the Cuban Missile Crisis and his split with China,  but there was no orderly way to change rulers. Khrushchev knew he was tired out and talked of retirement.  He failed to realize he had lost support among workers, farmers and the intelligentsia.  The military was angry at his plans to slash their budgets.  None of the reforms promised so often were working out; even the space program had fallen behind the Americans.  China was now an enemy and building alternative Communist parties across the world reforms. Top conspirators included [[Leonid Brezhnev]], Alexei Kosygin, Nikolai Podgorny, Mikhail Suslov; they acted in a bloodless coup to remove Khrushchev from his government and party positions in October 1964. They persuaded the [[Politburo]], which governed the Communist Party, to replace Khrushchev with Brezhnev. Khrushchev then quietly lived out the remainder of his life under the watch of the [[KGB]] until his death in 1971. He managed to smuggle out his memoirs for publication in the West.

By late 1964 Kremlin leaders were troubled by Khrushchev's irascible and self-contradictory behavior; top officials all complained he no longer consulted with them.  He had been weakened by the Cuban Missile Crisis and his split with China. Khrushchev knew he was tired out and talked of retirement, but there was no orderly way to change rulers.  He failed to realize he had lost support among workers, farmers and the intelligentsia.  The military was angry at his plans to slash their budgets.  None of the grandiose socialist reforms he had promised so often were working out; even the space program had fallen behind the Americans.  China was now an enemy and building alternative Communist parties across the world reforms. Top conspirators included [[Leonid Brezhnev]], Alexei Kosygin, Nikolai Podgorny, Mikhail Suslov; they acted in a bloodless coup to remove Khrushchev from his government and party positions in October 1964. They persuaded the [[Politburo]], which governed the Communist Party, to replace Khrushchev with Brezhnev. Khrushchev then quietly lived out the remainder of his life under the watch of the [[KGB]] until his death in 1971. He managed to smuggle out his memoirs for publication in the West.

==We will bury you==

==We will bury you==