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The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev

14/10/2014 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev

In October 1964 the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was ousted in a Kremlin coup

In October 1964 the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was ousted in a Kremlin coup but he was allowed to live out his life in Moscow.

On 14 October 1964 Moscow announced that the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was standing down. His retirement was unprecedented and although it was the result of a Kremlin coup, Khrushchev was allowed to live out the rest of his days in Moscow. His great-grandaughter, Nina Khrushcheva, tells us about her memories of the Cold War leader.

(Photo: Nikita Khrushchev with his his grandaughter, Julia, and great-grandaughter, Nina Khrushcheva (left), at Khrushchev's retirement dacha in 1971. Credit: Khrushchev family archive)

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