Who Organized Khrushchev’s Overthrow and Put Brezhnev in Power – HT
October 16th, 1964. Soviet newspapers carried a short announcement. Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party, chairman of the Council of Ministers, the man who had run the Soviet Union for over a decade, had stepped down. The reason given, his age, his health. Leonid Brezhnev was named his successor the…
