In a 2006 interview, Gagarin's friend Colonel Valentin Petrov stated that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying " Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

* Nikita Petrov

After Nikita turned face on Ivan to join their enemy Dusty Rhodes in 1986, Ivan teamed with Vladimir Petrov and Dick Murdoch to get revenge.

* Chapter 4: The Great Terror – from: " Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895 – 1940 ", by Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov

They also feuded with Nikita's " uncle " Ivan Koloff, who was mad that Nikita turned on him, along with Ivan's partners Vladimir Petrov and Dick Murdoch.

Krusher left in December 1986 and Ivan replaced him with Vladimir Petrov to get Nikita.

For example, Nikita Khrushchev never headed the Supreme Soviet but was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party ( party leader ) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( head of government ).

Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( i. e., the head of state ) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

The leader of Romania from 1948 to his death in 1965 was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the First Secretary of the Romanian Workers ' Party, who first sowed the seeds of greater independence from the Soviet Union by persuading Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to withdraw troops from Romania in April 1958.

* March 14 – Nikita Khrushchev is selected First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and Georgi Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

While Malenkov headed the government, Nikita Khrushchev eventually assumed supreme leadership of the party as First Secretary of the CPSU in September 1953, ushering in a period of a Malenkov-Khrushchev duumvirate.

From 1955 to 1962, he was First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Party Committee ; he was appointed by Nikita Khrushchev himself to take charge of economic planning and personnel selection in urban areas of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ).

For instance, in Who's on First, Oakes deliberately chooses not to stop the Soviet Union from launching Sputnik ahead of the otherwise-superior US satellite program, in order to protect the life of a Soviet contact ( and thus the seeming Soviet technological triumph was actually authorized by a US agent, who allowed it to happen ); in Marco Polo, if You Can, Oakes is the real-life U2 pilot Gary Powers, and allows himself to be captured while flying over the Soviet Union in order to create a cover story for a secret US intelligence operation ( and thus the U2 incident was actually planned from the start, Gary Powers was not shot down by the Soviet military but deliberately set up his own capture, and U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's subsequent humiliation by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev never happened ).

However, the educational reforms undertaken after Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in the late 1950s began a process of replacing non-Russian schools with Russian ones for the nationalities that had lower status in the federal system or whose populations were smaller or displayed widespread bilingualism already.

* Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

* Nikita Khrushchev ( journalist ), grandson of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

It produced the 1962 smash bestseller parody album, " The First Family " by Vaughn Meader, which was, to that time, the fastest-selling album in history, # 1 on Billboard 200 for 12 weeks, featuring impressions of President John F. Kennedy, wife Jackie Kennedy, and newsmakers like Nikita Khrushchev, and Senator Hubert Humphrey.

The Anti-Party Group () was a group within the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that unsuccessfully attempted to depose Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Party in May 1957.

The 20th Congress of the CPSU held in 1956 marked the party's formal break with Stalin ( three years after his death ) when First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev gave his famous Secret Speech denouncing the crimes and excesses of Stalin.

US president John F. Kennedy and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty on August 5, 1963, under the condition that each party could use its own technical means to monitor the ban on nuclear testing in the atmosphere or in outer space.

The central Soviet strongmen at the time were Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Ministry of the Interior ; Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ); and Georgi Malenkov, Premier of the Soviet Union.

Nikita Alexeevich Izotov () ( — January 14, 1951 ) is sometimes referred to ( at least by specialists ) as the " First Stakhanovite ," because he was the first Soviet worker singled out by the press for a superhuman act of labor.

In 1953, the project was closed by order of Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1954, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, visited Vladivostok.

Membership consists of 1400, spanning 140 countries and is led by Chairman Nikita Lopoukhine.

Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, publicly international allies, privately ideological enemies.

In 1964, after Nikita Khrushchev's ouster, a plenum of the Central Committee ( CC ) forbade any single individual to hold the two most powerful posts of the country ( the office of the General Secretary and the premier ), and Kosygin was in charge of economic administration in his role as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

* Nikita Khrushchev ( Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars, Soviet Union )

In a joint communiqué dated December 2, 1955, U. S. Secretary of State Dulles and Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Cunha condemned statements made by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Party Chairman Nikita Krushchev during an eighteen-day tour of India.

In July 1961 during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 KGB chief Alexander Shelepin sent a memorandum to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev containing an array of proposals to create a situation in various areas of the world which would favor dispersion of attention and forces by the US and their satellites, and would tie them down during the settlement of the question of a German peace treaty and West Berlin.

Nikita Kruschev and Lavrenti Beria, the KGB Chief, used similar stamps.

According to KGB archives studied by Peter Watson, Nikita Khrushchev personally signed an order to have Nureyev killed.

According to Yevgeniya Alabts allegations, Chief of the KGB Vladimir Semichastny was among the plotters against Nikita Khrushchev in 1964.

Two years later, on 17 November 1961, the German judicial bodies announced that Bandera's murderer had been a KGB defector Bohdan Stashynsky who acted on the orders of Soviet KGB head Alexander Shelepin and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Serov was removed from his post as head of the KGB in 1958 after hints by Nikita Khrushchev, who had said that Western visitors could expect that they " wouldn't see so many policemen around the place ", that the Soviet police force would undergo a restructuring.

Two of the twelve premiers died in office of natural causes ( Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin ), three resigned ( Alexei Kosygin, Nikolai Tikhonov and Ivan Silayev ), and three held the offices of party leader and premier simultaneously ( Lenin, Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev ).

* Ivan and Nikita Koloff

Yevtushenko's poem Babi Yar appeared in the Literaturnaya Gazeta in September 1961 and, along with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Novy Mir, was considered a high point of the relaxation in Soviet censorship during the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev.

Serov organized security for the tours of Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, but did not travel to Britain in 1956 when he was decried by the British media as " Ivan the Terrible " and " the Butcher ".

Nikita was brought into the National Wrestling Alliance by his " Uncle " Ivan to prove Soviet superiority.

Jim Crockett, Jr., the promoter of the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions, renamed him Nikita Koloff, the Russian Nightmare, and teamed him with " uncle " Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle, a turncoat American.

During television promos, Nikita stood behind Ivan and Kernodle with his arms folded while they took interviews.

After Nikita Khrushchev denounced the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin in 1956, the name was changed again to Zavod Imeni Likhacheva, after its former director Ivan Alekseevich Likhachev.

For example, Ivan and Nikita Koloff brought their " Russian " chains to the ring, and the Road Warriors brought their spikes, others used trash can lids and leather straps.

In April 1986, Magnum began feuding with Ivan Koloff, who had started proclaiming that his nephew, Nikita, would become the United States Heavyweight Champion.

At the signing, Magnum brought his mother, Marion, to the signing while Nikita brought Ivan.

In the tie-breaking match on August 17, 1986 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Nikita defeated Magnum to win the title with help from Ivan and Krusher Khruschev.

Ricky and Robert had a major feud with the " Russians ", Ivan and Nikita Koloff and won the NWA World Tag Team Title.

They won the NWA Tag Title four times while there and feuded with the Four Horsemen, Ivan and Nikita Koloff, and the team of Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez.

* The Russians: Ivan Koloff, Nikita Koloff, and Krusher Khruschev ( NWA, 1985 – 1986 )

He also filled in for the injured Krusher Khruschev, defending the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship with Ivan and Nikita Koloff.

It consisted of Ivan Koloff, Nikita Koloff and Krusher Khruschev.

Nikita left the Russian Team and joined Rhodes forcing Ivan and Krusher to feud with them.

:* NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship ( 1 time )-with Ivan & Nikita Koloff