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Khrushchev did literally nothing wrong. Khrushchev spent his entire time in office being the only person trying to build international communism, and basically every single good thing that happened from the 50s and until he was ousted can be traced to him.
I am the corn stan. And unless you hate Cuba and you think apartheid and colonialism was the tits you better start putting some respect on his name.
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I happen to hold the controversial opinion that siding with the great Satan and fascists is bad, and supporting decolonial movements and socialist movements around the world is good. Which means Nikita is literally the only good leader of a major power since the 1950s.
OK, two things he did right.
The fallout from the sinosoviet split and destalinization can't be overstated though.
I think they can be overblamed on him. The corncob in charge may have fucked up majorly with regards to destalinzation. I'll even grant you that it's 100% a bad decision and 100% his fuck up. We can even pretend he was the only guy who wanted to do and it was never gonna happen without him and he is entirely to blame. That does not in any way justify splitting the international communist movement to go play around with the US, a flawed socialist country is still better than the great Satan