The “People's Tsar,” as Nikita Khrushchev was sometimes called, unlike previous leaders, actually came from peasant background. What did people remember about Khrushchev? The fight against the cult of personality and the rehabilitation of its victims, the weakening of censorship and affordable housing, Komsomol vouchers to virgin lands and endless fields of corn, the abolition of “serfdom” and the fight against private plots, tanks in Hungary and the construction of the Berlin Wall. The fate of the world was decided by the wave of his boot, and the enemies were afraid of “Kuzka’s mother.” And there were also the first flights into space and the hope of building communism by the early 1980s. But most importantly: what didn’t happen under Khrushchev? Hunger, war, black “craters” and a knock on the door after midnight.