Nikita Khrushchev was the Russian president after Stalin died. He was born on April 15, 1894. He was brought up in a religious household. He joined the communist Bolsheviks in 1918, over a year after the group seized power in the Russian Revolution. During the Russian Civil War his first wife died leaving him with two children. He remarried in the future and had four more children. In 1929 He moved to Moscow, Russia and became friends with Joseph Stalin. He got a technical education and liked the idea of communism.
Over the course of World War II, Khrushchev sent troops to Ukraine and Stalingrad to fight the Nazi’s. During the last fight with Germany, nearly 20o tanks were damaged or destroyed after falling into a defensive